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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

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

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

Like the shell at Alost, it is her luck.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May

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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