rivage

American  

[riv-ij, rahy-vij] / ˈrɪv ɪdʒ, ˈraɪ vɪdʒ /

noun

Archaic.

1. a bank, shore, or coast.

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rivage British  

/ ˈrɪvɪdʒ /

noun

1. archaic a bank, shore, or coast

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Etymology

Origin of rivage

1250–1300; Middle English < Middle French, equivalent to rive river ¹ (< Latin rīpa riverbank) + -age -age

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Example Sentences

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rivage

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

Pour me garantir du naufrage, For fear of being cast away, Je n’ose quitter le rivage; I dare not quit the Sight of Shore; La crainte assûre mon repos.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

The third time he was called, and came thither, and found a child beside the rivage of the river: which prayed him goodly to bear him over the water.

From The Art of the Story-Teller by Marie L. Shedlock

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 Sir Edward Belcher

The third time he was called and came thither, and found a child beside the rivage of the river, which prayed him goodly to bear him over the water.

From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells

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