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Alost

American

[a-lawst] / aˈlɔst /

noun

a city in central Belgium, northwest of Brussels.

Alost British

/ alɔst /

noun

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

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Tough All Over Premier Joseph Stalin could ponder the news that the city fathers of Alost, Belgium had changed the postliberation name of Stalin Avenue back to the original, St. Anna.

From Time Magazine Archive

We gather that Ursula Dearmer has been working with the nuns in the Convent at Alost, where the wounded were taken before the ambulance cars removed them to Ghent.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair

Battles were fought at Alost and Termonde in which the Germans were, for the time, repulsed, but their ever-increasing reinforcements enabled them to advance despite the efforts of the Belgians to check them.

From World's War Events, Vol. I by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

Our ambulance car is to go to Alost at once.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair

At the mention of Alost the Commandant's face becomes childlike again in its utter simplicity and innocence and candour.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair

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