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Pau (pō), city (1990 pop. 83,928), capital of Pyrénées-Atlantiques dept., SW France, at the foot of the Pyrenees. It is a major year-round tourist center, renowned for its spa and winter sports, as well as its scenery. It has metallurgical and wool industries, and aeronautical equipment, shoes, and clothing are manufactured. Founded in the 11th cent., it became the capital of Béarn Béarn , former province, SW France, in the Pyrenees. It is now the inland part of Pyrénées-Atlantiques dept. Its valleys are well cultivated, and cattle are bred. Pau replaced Orthez as the capital in the 15th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. in the 15th cent. and the residence of the kings of Navarre Navarre , Span. Navarra , province (1990 pop. 527,318), N Spain, bordering on France, between the W Pyrenees and the Ebro River. Pamplona is the capital. Land and Economy

Navarre province forms the autonomous region of Navarra.
..... Click the link for more information. in 1512. Henry IV was born in its château. Its university was founded in 1724.

Pau

a city in SW France: residence of the French kings of Navarre; tourist centre for the Pyrenees. Pop.: 78 732 (1999)

Pau

a city in southwestern France and the capital of the Department of Basses-Pyrénées. Population, 76,000 (1968). Railroad junction on the line to Spain by way of the Puerto de Somport. Pau has machine-building, food-processing, textile, and footwear industries.

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I don't envy Emily; I only wish--" She pau sed in confusion, and opened her fan.

I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context

The whole vast plain of Gascony and of Languedoc is an arid and profitless expanse in winter save where the swift-flowing Adour and her snow-fed tributaries, the Louts, the Oloron and the Pau, run down to the sea of Biscay.

The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

The female dress consisted of the pau, a garment formed of a piece of tappa, several yards in length and one in width, wrapped round the waist, and reaching like a petticoat, to the knees.

Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context

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