adret
\ a-DREY \ ,
noun;
1.a side of a mountain receiving direct sunlight.
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Quotes:
The shady side, or ubac , is usually rocky, steep and densely forested, whereas the sunny slope, or adret , is gentler and much more fertile.
-- Pier Paolo Viazzo," Upland Communities: Environment, Population and Social Structure in the Alps Since the Sixteenth Century" , 1989
The adret receives the maximum incoming radiation and sunshine, whereas the ubac may be permanently in the shade.
-- David Waugh, "Geography: An Integrated Approach" , 2000
Origin:
Adret can be traced to the Old Provençal adreg meaning "good; suitable." It entered English by way of French in the early 1900s.
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