Adour

[uh-door, ah-door]

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.

Example Sentences

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.

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

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

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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.

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That’s how Frank Bruni, in a review for The Times, characterized a complex dessert at the Adour Alain Ducasse, a now-shuttered restaurant in New York that was led by the French superstar chef.

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