Braine-le-Comte, a busy town of the Belgian province of Hainaut, on the Senne, 19 miles SSW. of Brussels. It has an old church of the 13th cen- tury, cotton and corn mills, dye-works, breweries, &c. Some of the finest flax that can be produced is grown in the district. Pop. (1884) 8176.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 394
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