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

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

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

Renoux saw them coming, understood, turned and hurried southward to warn Alost and Souchez.

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

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