Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun a gulf of the North
Atlantic Ocean along the western coast ofFrance fromBrest south to the Spanish border, and the northern coast of Spain, named for the Spanish province ofBiscay
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Bay of Biscay.
Examples
-
In Gijon, a quaint seaport city on the Bay of Biscay, I met one cousin who not only looked like me but was a cop, to boot.
Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010
-
Both Pascal projects had been put on ice, partly because two of his producers, Alfred Chenhalls and Leslie Howard, had been shot down and killed by a squadron of eight Luftwaffe fighters over the Bay of Biscay on June 1, 1943.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
-
In Gijon, a quaint seaport city on the Bay of Biscay, I met one cousin who not only looked like me but was a cop, to boot.
Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010
-
In Gijon, a quaint seaport city on the Bay of Biscay, I met one cousin who not only looked like me but was a cop, to boot.
Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010
-
In the early morning of 23 January 2009, the most powerful hurricane-force storm to hit France in a decade came howling in from the Bay of Biscay.
Fragile habitat of French mystery island 'risks being trampled underfoot' 2010
-
In October she had set off for home via Cape Horn and the Atlantic, and was now entering the Bay of Biscay disguised as the Portuguese freighter S.
Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009
-
The Erika which is owned by the Total oil company sank off the coast of Brittany in the Bay of Biscay.
-
They floated in a high-blue Breton sky over where the Bay of Biscay, the English Channel, and the North Atlantic all slap together, cold as hell and hungover, too.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
-
Thats the direction the Oja River flows, eventually meeting the Bay of Biscay, and its a natural direction for wine travel.
A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008
-
Approximately 5,000 French and Spanish fishing boats are currently active in the Bay of Biscay.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.