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Biarritz
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tags: [geography]
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Definition:a French town on the Atlantic ocean coast near the Spanish border. Today it is a tourist trap that offers luxury hotels, casinos and surfing.
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"After the war," the handsome British correspondent was saying, "I am going to buy a house outside Biarritz, and just stay there. I can't stand English food. When I am forced to go to London, I'll pack a hamper and take a plane for a weekend, eating in my hotel room ..."
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.584 (1948)
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He married an heiress, a Gotte (or Cagot) of Biarritz; and the newly-married well-to-do couple saw no reason why they should stand near the door in the church, nor why he should not hold some civil office in the commune, of which he was the principal inhabitant.
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Some of the women stared at the people going by with lorgnons. We had acquired, at some time, a friend of Bill's from Biarritz.
Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises. p.179 (1926)
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her nanny would pack Elizabeth's clothes and she would be flown to their villa in Biarritz. It had fifty rooms and thiry acres of grounds and Elizabeth kept getting lost.
Sidney Sheldon. Bloodline, p.103 (1977)
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