rivière
Americannoun
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rivières
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of rivière
1875–80; < French: literally, river 1
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After a march of four days, they encamped on the 26th by a stream which ran into the Hudson, and was no doubt the Batten Kill, known to the French as la rivière de Saratogue.
From A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II by Francis Parkman
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
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 Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy) Otis
Yes, you can put me on a rivière, and two of the biggest ropes of pearls....
From In Brief Authority by F. Anstey
The Marquesa de Vivanco had a rivière of brilliants of extraordinary size and beauty, and perfectly well set.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
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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