Meaning of rivage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A coast, a shore.
   archaic, countable, poetic, uncountable
2. A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.
   UK, countable, historical, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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”

“Pactolus with his waters shere Throwes forth upon the rivage”

“From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical, […]”

“[…] leaves have taken flight From yon Slim seedling-birch on the rivage, the flock Of herons has the quiet of solitude […]”

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