Béziers

[ bey-zyey ]

/ beɪˈzyeɪ /

a city in S France, SW of Montpellier.

Example sentences from the Web for beziers

Beziers is a town which looks pleasant even at the worst time of the year.

The Memoires of Casanova, Complete |Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
The Crusaders met in large assembly, and then marched to lay siege to the city of Beziers.

Curiosities of Christian History |Croake James
Alby, Beziers, and Pezenas hastened to give in their submission.

A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times |Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
There, crowding yon hill, with handsome houses and churches, is Beziers—the blood-stained city.

Prose Idylls |Charles Kingsley

We shall see who the cavalier, the discoverer of the fountain of the Greve, was, when we arrive at Beziers.

Claret and Olives, from the Garonne to the Rhone |Angus B. Reach

Béziers

/ (French bezje) /

a city in S France: scene of a massacre (1209) during the Albigensian Crusade. It is a centre of the wine trade. Pop: 69 153 (1999)