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

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

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 King Henry V by Shakespeare, William

O, do but think You stand upon the rivage and behold A city on the inconstant billows dancing!

From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various

Right so departed Galahad, Percivale and Bors with him; and so they rode three days, and then they came to a rivage, and found the ship whereof the tale speaketh of tofore.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

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 P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von