NIVELLE, a town of the Austrian Netherlands, in the province of Brabant, remarkable for its abbey of canonesses. Here is a manufacture of cambrics, and the town enjoys great privileges. The abbey just mentioned is inhabited by young ladies of the first quality, who are not confined therein as in nunneries, but may go out and marry whenever they see convenient, or a proper match offers. E. Long. 4. 36. N. Lat. 50. 35.