Adour
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The Nive and the Adour meet beneath our feet.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
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 • Feb. 15, 2023
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.
From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2018
In a sort of ham homage, the leaders of modern-day France designated the basin of the Adour River near the Spanish border as the exclusive realm of Bayonne Ham.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2014
The Gave de Pau, a larger stream than the Adour, passes Pau and Orthez, but its current is so swift that it is only navigable for a few miles above its junction with the Adour.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
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