Alost

American  

[a-lawst] / aˈlɔst /

noun

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

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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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Alost

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

At the door of the tent was a peasant from the level land of Alost, and by his side two monks begged for alms.

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Charles de Coster

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 Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

It was at a place called Oombergen, midway between Oudenarde and Alost, that the fugitives met the Death’s-Head Hussars.

From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy

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 Charles James Lever

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