Lierre, a town of Belgium, 11 miles by rail SE. of Antwerp, has manufactures of silk, lace, shoes, beet-root sugar, with salt-works and breweries. The Gothic church of St Gummer (1425-1557) has a fine rood-loft and a picture by Memling. Pop. (1896) 19,300.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 615
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