rivage

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English

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Etymology

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From Anglo-Norman rivage, Middle French rivage, from Late Latin rīpāticum.

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Noun

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rivage (countable and uncountable, plural rivages)

  1. (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
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    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Pactolus with his waters shere
      Throwes forth upon the rivage
    • 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. [], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, [], published 1842, →OCLC, part V, page 25:
      From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical, []
    • 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 []
  2. (law, UK, historical) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French rivage, from Late Latin rīpāticum. Equivalent to by surface analysis, rive +‎ -age.

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Noun

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rivage m (plural rivages)

  1. bank; shore; coast
    • 2015, Fréro Delavega, Ton visage:
      Que n’ai-je ? Une planche de salut, loin du métro, de son raffut, les yeux rivés sur le rivage, oublier ton lointain visage.
      What do I not have? A lifeline, far from the metro and all that racket. My eyes glued to the shore to forget your distant face.
    • 2013, Zaz, On ira:
      Vous êtes l’horizon, nous sommes la mer. Vous êtes les saisons, nous sommes la terre. Vous êtes le rivage, et moi, je suis l’écume.
      You are the horizon, we are the sea. You are the seasons, we are the earth. You are the shore, and I am the foam.

Usage notes

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  • Refers to the area of land connected to the sea.[1][2] For freshwater, see rive.

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Old French

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Etymology

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From Late Latin rīpāticum. Equivalent to by surface analysis, rive +‎ -age.

Noun

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

  1. riverbank or shore

Descendants

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  • French: rivage
  • English: rivage

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