Alost
Americannoun
noun
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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
A disastrous conflagration destroyed most of Alost in 1360, and thereafter history deals with the fury of the religious wars conducted by the Spanish against Alost, a most strongly fortified town.
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton
I still think that he sinned when he took Ursula Dearmer to Termonde and to Alost.
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May
The ambulance has come back from Alost with two or three wounded and some refugees.
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May
The Town Hall: Alost Thierry Moertens, who was a renowned master printer of the Netherlands, was born here, and is said to have established in Alost the "very first printing house in Flanders."
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton
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