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Webster 1913 Edition


Rivage

Riv′age

,
Noun.
[F., fr. L.
ripa
bank, shore.]
1.
A bank, shore, or coast.
[Archaic]
Spenser.
From the green
rivage
many a fall
Of diamond rillets musical.
Tennyson.
2.
(O.Eng.Law)
A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.

Webster 1828 Edition


Rivage

RIV'AGE

,
Noun.
A bank, shore or coast. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


rivage

rivage

English

Noun

rivage (plural rivages)

  1. (now rare, poetic) A coast, a shore.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter 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 Spenser to this entry?)
    • Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
      From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical.
  2. (law, Britain, historical) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.

French

Etymology

rive + -age

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁi.vaʒ/
  • Homophone: rivages
  • Hyphenation: ri‧vage

Noun

rivage m (plural rivages)

  1. bank; shore; coast

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Old French

Noun

rivage m (oblique plural rivages, nominative singular rivages, nominative plural rivage)

  1. riverbank or shore

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