Ostend, a favourite watering-place on the SW. coast of Belgium, 65 m. due W. of Antwerp; attracts 20,000 visitors every summer; it is an important seaport, having daily mail communication with Dover, and it manufactures linen and sail-cloth; fishing is the chief industry; it is famed for oysters, which are brought over from England and fattened for export.
Population (circa 1900) given as 26,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ostade, Adrian * Ostia