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

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

We have news this morning of a battle at Alost, a town about fifteen kilometres south-east of Ghent.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May

To know nothing except that Alost is being bombarded and that it is to Alost that they are going.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May

At 42d Street and Madison Avenue the taxi stopped and Souchez and Alost got out and went rapidly across the street toward the Grand Central depot.

From The Moonlit Way by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

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