Alost

American  

[a-lawst] / aˈlɔst /

noun

1. a city in central Belgium, northwest of Brussels.

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Alost British  

/ alɔst /

noun

1. Flemish name: Aalst.  a town in central Belgium, in East Flanders province. Pop: 76 852 (2004 est)

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Example Sentences

“They deserve it. They stuck with us through alost last year is what it seems like — two years. It’s almost been a continuing season. They deserve it. We know we’re going to have a great crowd and a crowd that’s rocking. They always help us. To win it in front of them is going to be special.”

From Seattle Times

"I fear me he be gone or alost."

From Project Gutenberg

Among the most impressive of these monuments were the Cloth Hall at Ypres, the Belfry of Bruges, the Town-halls of Audenarde, Alost, Termonde, Louvain, Brussels, and Ghent, the Cathedrals of Antwerp and Malines, the quaint Béguinages or cities of retirement for religious women, and many another less renowned but hardly less beautiful expression of ancient faith and community of enterprise.

From Project Gutenberg

At the door of the tent, a churl from the flat country of Alost, with two monks who were there to get something for themselves, was showing the curious devout, for a patard, a piece of the shoulder blade of Saint Mary of Egypt.

From Project Gutenberg

It is on the Dender almost due south of Alost, and is chiefly famous because the charter of Grammont given by Baldwin VI., count of Flanders, in A.D.

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