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Adour

American  
[uh-door, ah-door] / əˈdʊər, ɑˈdur /

noun

  1. a river in SW France, flowing N from the Pyrenees and then W to the Bay of Biscay. 210 miles (338 km) long.


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The Nive and the Adour meet beneath our feet.

From Salon

Vegetation within the circles can sometimes be suppressed, notes Isabelle Moretti, a geologist at the University of Pau and the Adour Region who has documented hydrogen seeping from fairy circles in Brazil, Namibia, and Australia.

From Science Magazine

Jambon de Bayonne is a cured ham crafted in the Adour Bassin in the Pyrenees.

From Salon

Jambon de Bayonne begins with local pigs that have been born and bred in the Adour Bassin.

From Salon

The chef’s pickled red onions are a trick that he nicked from the Adour, the Alain Ducasse restaurant inside the St. Regis in New York, where the kitchen used to pickle pearl onions for a lamb dish.

From Washington Post