Adorno
a great plebeian family in Italy. It furnished many doges to Genoa.
For 165 years they struggled for supremacy, especially with the Fregosi, and were definitely destroyed by Andrea Doria, in 1528.
ADOUR (ad-ör'), a river of France, which rises 6 miles to the E. of Barèges, in the department of the Upper Pyre nees, and, running by Tarbes and Dax, falls into the Bay of Biscay, 3 miles beyond Bayonne, where it joins the Nive.
Its course, through many fertile valleys, is about 180 miles.