Thourout, a town in the Belgian province of West Flanders, 11 miles SW. of Bruges. Of great commercial importance in the middle ages, it now manufactures linens and hats. Pop. 8972.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 188
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