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Alost

American  
[a-lawst] / aˈlɔst /

noun

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


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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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

He has seen it at Alost and Termonde.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair

Her husband took her to Alost in his motor-car; I mean the motor-car which is the property of his paper.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair

Renoux, busy with a bleeding nose, remarked carelessly that Souchez and Alost were taking a train and were in a hurry, and that he himself was going back to the Astor.

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

After wandering about some time and threatening Brussels, they seized and plundered Alost, where they established themselves; and they were soon after joined by the Walloon and German troops.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd

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