Alost
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
She and the Commandant both look as if something extremely agreeable had happened to them at Alost.
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
A very high mark, let me tell you; his father was burgomaster at Alost, and he himself has a great sugar bakery, or salt raffinerie, or something equivalent, at Scharbeck.'
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James
They are pouring in by all the roads from Alost and Termonde.
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May
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