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
It is a city of some thirty thousand inhabitants, located at the junction of the Adour and Nive rivers, in the Lower Pyrenees.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray
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