The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Alinement \A*line"ment\, n. Same as Alignment. [1913 Webster] Note: [The Eng. form alinement is preferable to alignment, a bad spelling of the French]. --New Eng. Dict. (Murray). [1913 Webster]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
alinement n 1: an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty [syn: alliance, coalition, alignment, alinement] [ant: nonalignment, nonalinement]