rivage
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman rivage, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French rivage, from rive + -age.
Pronunciation
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Noun
rivage (plural rivages)
- (now rare, poetic) A coast, a shore.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII::
- Ryght soo departed Galahad / Percyual / and Bors with hym / and soo they rode thre dayes / and thenne they came to a Ryuage and fonde the shyp […] / And whanne they cam to the borde / they fonde in the myddes the table of syluer / whiche they had lefte with the maymed kynge and the Sancgreal whiche was couerd with rede samyte
- 1892, Michael Field, "The Death of Procris"
- […] leaves have taken flight
- From yon
- Slim seedling-birch on the rivage, the flock
- Of herons has the quiet of solitude […]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
- From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical.
- (law, UK, historical) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
rivage m (plural rivages)
Further reading
- “rivage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Old French
Noun
rivage oblique singular, m (oblique plural rivages, nominative singular rivages, nominative plural rivage)
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (rivage, supplement)
- rivage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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