Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Archaic A coast, shore, or bank.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bank, shore, or coast.
- n. A toll formerly paid to the crown on some rivers for the passage of boats or vessels.
- n. Same as arrivage.
Wiktionary
- n. poetic A coast, a shore.
- n. law, UK, historical A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Archaic A bank, shore, or coast.
- n. (O.Eng.Law) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.
Etymologies
- From Anglo-Norman rivage, Middle French rivage, from rive + -age. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from rive, bank, from Latin rīpa. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“Quant à moi, je ne puis le dire, j'ignore quand finira ce long voyage; je suis fatigué de prendre successive - ment pour le rivage des vapeurs trompeuses, et je me de - mands souvent si cette terre ferme que nous cherchons depuis si longtemps existe en effet, ou si notre destinée n'est pas plutôt de battre éternellement la mer!”
“Throws forth upon the rivage, round about him near.”
“Vous savez, Monsieur, que je ne veux que quelques pieds de sable, une pierre de rivage sans ornement et sans inscription, une simple croix de fer, et une petite grille pour empêcher les animaux de me deterrer.”
“Right so departed Galahad, Percivale and Bors with him; and so they rode three days, and then they came to a rivage, [24] and found a ship.”
“Aussi tot la chaloupe fut armee pour aller chercher ceux qui s'etoient sauvez le long du rivage.”
“Le rivage etoit aussi borde de roches, contre lesquelles la mer brisoit avec d'efroiables mugissemens.”
“Enfin a force de courir et de chercher quelque chose qu'ils pussent manger, ils apercurent entre les rochers qui etoient le long du rivage, de gros limacons, et de plus petits, qui y venoient de la mer, et dont le gout, qui etoit passable, parut excellent a des gens affamez.”
“[Music: Hélas! que ne puis-je te suivre, vers ce rivage heureux, d'où le sort m'exila!]”
“_Revers_: La prise de Boston, l'armée anglaise fuyant vers le rivage pour s'embarquer, etc.”
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rivage’.
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WWF WTF?
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Interesting words
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fbharjo's Words
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lotic words of flow
fast flowing, rapid, confluent words
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Tweets
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fbharjo rivage shore whether it be river lake or ocean; bank or shore Jan 8, 2007