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Meaning of adret in English:

adret

noun

  • A mountain slope which faces the sun.

    Compare with ubac

    • ‘The shady northern side of an alpine mountain, characterized by a lower timberline and lower snow line than the sunny southern side (adret slope).’
    hill, hillside, hillock, bank, rise, escarpment, scarp

Pronunciation

adret

/ˈadreɪ/ /ˈadrɛt/ /aˈdreɪ/

Origin

From French, from dialect variants of à ‘to’ and droit ‘straight’.