Adour

[ uh-door; French ah-door ]

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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.

The department which borrows its name from the Landes of Gascony is divided by the Adour into two wholly dissimilar parts.

Fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago the coast north of the Adour was inhabited, and comparatively flourishing.

We will imitate the fête champêtre of Charles and Catherine held on the isle of the Adour.

When I had concluded, the sun had set, and already a grey mist began to form over the course of the Adour.

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