Adour

[ uh-door; French ah-door ]

noun

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 greater part of the department belongs to the basin of the Garonne, while a small portion in the west is drained by the Adour.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 | Various
The department which borrows its name from the Landes of Gascony is divided by the Adour into two wholly dissimilar parts.
The Desert World | Arthur Mangin
Fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago the coast north of the Adour was inhabited, and comparatively flourishing.
The Desert World | Arthur Mangin
We will imitate the fête champêtre of Charles and Catherine held on the isle of the Adour.
A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees | Edwin Asa Dix
When I had concluded, the sun had set, and already a grey mist began to form over the course of the Adour.
A Book of Ghosts | Sabine Baring-Gould

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