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Tarbes

American  
[tarb] / tarb /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Hautes-Pyrénées, in SW France.


Tarbes British  
/ tarb /

noun

  1. a town in SW France: noted for the breeding of Anglo-Arab horses. Pop: 46 275 (1999)

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Brigadier Lanckbeen served with the 35th Parachute Artillery Regiment based in Tarbes, and was deployed as part of Operation Sentinelle, a long-running domestic security operation.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

A logo of Alstom is seen at the Alstom's plant in Semeac near Tarbes, France, February 15, 2019.

From Reuters • Dec. 10, 2021

Local chef Jean-Pierre Cenac, a restaurant owner in the Tarbes valley since 1964, cooked the delicatessen on display.

From Washington Times • Jul. 20, 2019

The following morning Brailsford said he would prefer to focus his attention on the day’s stage from Tarbes to the hill-top finish at Pierre Saint Martin but the genie was out of the bottle.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2015

To quiet me, Josephine bought on the Pont-Neuf a little dog not unlike the Tarbes specimen.

From My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 by Gautier, Théophile

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