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ADOSSEE'

Volume 8 · 56 words · 1810 Edition

in Heraldry, signifies two figures or bearings being placed back to back.

ADOUR, the name of a river of France, which rises in the mountains of Bigorre, in the department of the Upper Pyrenees, and running north by Tarbes through Gacony, afterwards turns east, and passing by Dax, falls into the bay of Biscay, below Bayonne.