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rivage

[riv-ij, rahy-vij]
noun Archaic.
  1. a bank, shore, or coast.
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Origin of rivage

1250–1300; Middle English < Middle French, equivalent to rive river1 (< Latin rīpa riverbank) + -age -age
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Examples from the Web for rivage

Historical Examples

  • O, do but thinkYou stand upon the rivage and beholdA city on the inconstant billows dancing!

    Lyra Heroica

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  • They rode three days, and then they came to a rivage, where they found the ship whereof the tale speaketh tofore.

British Dictionary definitions for rivage

rivage

noun
  1. archaic a bank, shore, or coast
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Word Origin

C14: from Old French, from rive river bank, from Latin rīpa
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