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Alost

American  
[a-lawst] / aˈlɔst /

noun

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


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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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

Her husband took her to Alost in his motor-car; I mean the motor-car which is the property of his paper.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May

Renoux, busy with a bleeding nose, remarked carelessly that Souchez and Alost were taking a train and were in a hurry, and that he himself was going back to the Astor.

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

And it is all about the shells at Alost.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May

They had flown as far as Ninove and Alost, but found the country there clear.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir