Biarritz

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

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

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How to use Biarritz in a sentence

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

    The Sea | Jules Michelet
  • Whether it was made direct from the melodramatic text of "Biarritz" is doubtful.

British Dictionary definitions for Biarritz

Biarritz

/ (ˈbɪərɪts, bɪəˈrɪts, French bjarits) /


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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