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Biarritz

[ bee-uh-rits; French bya-reets ]

noun

  1. a city in southwestern France, on the Bay of Biscay: luxury seaside tourist destination.


Biarritz

/ bjarits; ˈbɪərɪts; bɪəˈrɪts /

noun

  1. a town in SW France, on the Bay of Biscay: famous resort, patronized by Napoleon III and by Queen Victoria and Edward VII of Great Britain and Ireland. Pop: 30 055 (1999)


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By the way, a mint condition 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible can now sell for as much as $350,000.

The idle rich had driven down from Biarritz with their uniformed chauffeurs.

You met him at Biarritz six months ago, and on Monday last he lunched with you up at Monifieth.

Compound engines of this kind have been used on the French line of railroad from Bayonne to Biarritz.

I shall write to you when we are at Biarritz or some other place that suits us, and when I have something good to tell.

But the gulf of Gascony, from Cordouan to Biarritz, is just one long maritime contradiction, one enigma of mighty strifes.

Whether it was made direct from the melodramatic text of "Biarritz" is doubtful.

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