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Alost
[ French a-lawst ]
noun
- a city in central Belgium, northwest of Brussels.
Alost
/ 补濒蓴蝉迟 /
noun
- a town in central Belgium, in East Flanders province. Pop: 76聽852 (2004 est) Flemish nameAalst
Example Sentences
鈥淭hey deserve it. They stuck with us through alost last year is what it seems like 鈥 two years. It鈥檚 almost been a continuing season. They deserve it. We know we鈥檙e going to have a great crowd and a crowd that鈥檚 rocking. They always help us. To win it in front of them is going to be special.鈥
"I fear me he be gone or alost."
Among the most impressive of these monuments were the Cloth Hall at Ypres, the Belfry of Bruges, the Town-halls of Audenarde, Alost, Termonde, Louvain, Brussels, and Ghent, the Cathedrals of Antwerp and Malines, the quaint B茅guinages or cities of retirement for religious women, and many another less renowned but hardly less beautiful expression of ancient faith and community of enterprise.
At the door of the tent, a churl from the flat country of Alost, with two monks who were there to get something for themselves, was showing the curious devout, for a patard, a piece of the shoulder blade of Saint Mary of Egypt.
It is on the Dender almost due south of Alost, and is chiefly famous because the charter of Grammont given by Baldwin VI., count of Flanders, in A.D.
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