Bigorre, a mountainous district of South-west France, formerly belonging to Gascony, but now for the most part embraced in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées. Tarbes (q.v.) has been the chief town since the days of the Romans. See BAGNERES.
Bigorre
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 138
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