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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

We have news this morning of a battle at Alost, a town about fifteen kilometres south-east of Ghent.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair

I still think that he sinned when he took Ursula Dearmer to Termonde and to Alost.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair

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 George Wharton Edwards

They are pouring in by all the roads from Alost and Termonde.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair

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