Brattleboro
a town in Windham co., Vt.; on the Connecticut river, and the Boston and Maine and the Central Vermont railroads; 11 miles S. E. of Newfane, the county-seat. It is in a picturesque farming region; is the trade center of southeast Vermont; and contains the State Asylum for the Insane, Brooks Public Library, and manufactories of organs, carriages, furniture, and machinery. Brattleboro is the center of the maple sugar industry of Vermont, and has National banks and several BRAVI weekly and monthly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 6,517; (1920) 7,324.
BRAVI (brä'vē), the name formerly given in Italy, and particularly in Venice, to those who were ready to hire themselves out to perform any desperate undertaking. The word had the same signification in Spain, and both the word and the persons designated by it were found in France in the reign of Louis XIII. and during the minority of Louis XIV.