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Hyères

American  
[ee-air, yer] / iˈɛər, yɛr /

noun

  1. a city in SE France, on the French Riviera.


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More than 300 mosquito-catching machines have been deployed in the French town of Hyères after the insects started to affect tourism.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2021

BBC Click's Chris Fox went to Hyères to see the machines in action and ask the company's co-founders about their impact on the environment.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2021

We meet Colette in a four-room peasant mas in nearby St. Tropez, and Edith Wharton in a 17th-century convent in Hyères.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2020

Mr. Senderens was born in Hyères, in southeastern France, on Dec. 2, 1939.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2017

There she lay, fair as an almond blossom, and royally robed, and the people of Hyères took her up and gave her honourable burial. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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