rivière
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of rivière
1875–80; < French: literally, river 1
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Yes, you can put me on a rivière, and two of the biggest ropes of pearls....
From In Brief Authority by Anstey, F.
The Marquesa de Vivanco had a rivière of brilliants of extraordinary size and beauty, and perfectly well set.
From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)
Here a nine miles' carry was made to one of the sources of the Wabash, called by the voyageurs "la petite rivière."
From The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Roosevelt, Theodore
Batturier does not appear in the dictionaries, and was doubtless coined by Champlain himself, as he makes, farther on, the adjective truitière, in the expression la rivière truitière, from the noun, truite.
From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)
As for Keturah Vanhansen, she wore her rivière of diamonds, dripping, dancing, flashing like water that was perpetually flowing, and yet, by some enchantment, arrested in its flow in glorious suspension.
From A Houseful of Girls by Tytler, Sarah
The French are better off than we; they have the word "fleuve" for the St. Lawrence;—other streams are "rivières."
From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by Wrong, George McKinnon
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