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‖ adret Geogr.|adre| [F. (orig. dial.), f. à to + OFr. dre(i)t: see adroit a.] A (mountain) slope which faces the sun. Cf. ubac.
1931Geogr. Rev. XXI. 424 The valley has an east-west trend and so a well defined adret (sunny side) and ubac (shady side). 1936R. Peattie Mountain Geogr. iv. 90 An exception to the law of exposure is found in the existence of sunny slopes on an ubac. These slopes are the ‘secondary adrets’. 1937A. Garnett Insolation & Relief i. 4 The familiar contrasts of land utilisation on adret and ubac slopes. |