rivage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rivage
1250–1300; Middle English < Middle French, equivalent to rive river 1 (< Latin rīpa riverbank) + -age -age
Example Sentences
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Instead, the game takes place in a hotel, a towering, imposing beau rivage named the Last Resort with novelty-themed floors, a fun twist for a new installment in this goofiest of survival horror franchises.
From Slate
Revers: La prise de Boston, l'arm�e anglaise fuyant vers le rivage pour s'embarquer, etc.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand
O, do but think, You stand upon the rivage, and behold A city on the inconstant billows dancing; For so appears this fleet majestical, Holding due course to Harfleur.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
La chaloupe etant retournee a bord, et aiant annonce cette nouvelle, il fut resolu que l'on iroit chercher plus avant dans les terres, et le long du rivage.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by King, Phillip Parker
Sans doute est-ce un r�le tut�laire � peu pr�s semblable qui, dans la croyance populaire, est d�volu � un autre homme-f�e, plus sp�cialement affect� au rivage de la mer, comme l’indique son nom de Yann-An-�d.
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans
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