Hyères

[ ee-air; French yer ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

The World Sailing governing body said races next April – called the Last Chance Regatta for Olympic qualification at the French Riviera resort Hyères – are the “targeted opportunity” for sailors with a passport from Russia and Belarus to return to international competition as neutral athletes.

From Seattle Times

The World Sailing governing body said races next April — called the Last Chance Regatta for Olympic qualification at the French Riviera resort Hyères – are the “targeted opportunity” for sailors with a passport from Russia and Belarus to return to international competition as neutral athletes.

From Washington Times

When Mr. Martens was named president of the fashion jury for the 37th edition of the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography, the Cannes Film Festival of fashion prizes, his metamorphosis from genius weirdo into industry Olympian seemed complete.

From New York Times

The scion of an aristocratic French-Belgian family, the architect, who had grown up in the wealthy Parisian suburb of Maisons-Laffitte, created some of France’s seminal ultraminimalist 20th-century country estates between the wars, including the austere 1920s mansion of the Surrealist patrons Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles in the Riviera town of Hyères, and the fashion designer Paul Poiret’s 25-room villa in Mézy-sur-Seine, an hour west of the capital, which was started in 1922 but left unfinished when Poiret’s company went bankrupt.

From New York Times

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