Tarbes, an old historic town of France, on the Adour, 100 m. SW. of Toulouse; has a fine 12th-century cathedral, a Government cannon factory, etc.
Population (circa 1900) given as 25,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Tarascon * Tare and Tret