Quatre-Bras (i.e. four arms), a village 10 m. SE. of Waterloo, where the roads from Brussels to Charleroi and from Nivelles to Namur intersect: was the scene of an obstinate conflict between the English under Wellington and the French under Ney, two days before the battle of Waterloo.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Quass * Quatrefages de Bréau