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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

Like the shell at Alost, it is her luck.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May

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

Our ambulance car is to go to Alost at once.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May

Here also the first positive date is 1473, the year in which Johann of Paderborn in Westphalia, best known to English collectors as John of Westphalia, printed three books at Alost.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

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