rivière
Americannoun
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rivières
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
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 F. Anstey
"Well, if you want money—" he said at last, putting down a rivière which had belonged to Delia's mother—"That alone will give you some thousands!"
From Delia Blanchflower by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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 Sarah Tytler
Against one of these sketches are written the words "Embouchure de la rivière comme M. de la Salle la marque dans sa carte."
From France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 by Francis Parkman
“She ain’t scare’ go anywhere on the rivière with Moise and his oncle, or even with Leo and George.
From The Young Alaskans in the Rockies by Emerson Hough
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 George McKinnon Wrong
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