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Rideau

Rideau \Ri*deau"\ (r[-e]*d[=o]"), n. [F.] A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.

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Rideau

"Rideau" ( French for curtain) may refer to:

Rideau (company)

Rideau is a private, Canada-based company that provides corporate and governmental recognition programs and products. Founded in 1912 as the Stephenson Company, the company has undergone several buyouts and ventures in different geographical markets. Rideau was the first Canadian company to produce the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian decoration, as well as the first Canadian company to be granted its own Coat of Arms by The Heraldic Authority.

Usage examples of "rideau".

The latest victim of the Rideau Rapist had been alive when she was found.

Maybe he was planning to kill her, and leading us to believe it was the Rideau Rapist to throw us off the scent, and keep him off the hook.

Perhaps the true beauty of the Rideau Canal, or any body of water for that matter, was in the reflections on its surface.

Lawrence Canal has cost the best part of a million, is useless in time of war, and a mere foil at all times to the Rideau navigation, which the British government constructed free of any provincial funds.

Lawrence and Rideau Canals, the Atlantic Ocean, and Lakes Superior and Michigan, I shall, although contrary to a determination made to give nothing in this work but the results of personal inspection or observation, use the scissors and paste for once, and thus place under view a table of all the articles which are carried through this main artery of Canada, by which both import and export trade may be viewed as in a mirror, and this too before the canal is fairly finished.

According to the landlord, Rideau, this Scarlatti woman used the flat once or twice a week.

Gerard was shaking his head, denying any knowledge of any Rideau family.

The Rideau house, set in the midst of barren scrub, was too exposed for any such retreat.

He sends his man to pay off Rideau, asks him not to identify him to police.

The Rideau Fall is divided into two branches, thus forming an island in the middle, as is the case at Niagara.

Lansdowne Bridge again, past Sunnyside, going down the long hill that Bank Street made before it crossed the Rideau River at Billings Bridge.

Situated near the Rideau River in a suburb of Ottawa known as Confederation Heights, CSE is headquartered in the nondescript Sir Leonard Tilley Building, at 719 Heron Road.

Just before noon, on June 21, 1957, John Diefenbaker and thirteen jolly Tories arrived at Rideau Hall to be sworn in as the new Government of Canada.

Had he been a great Duke in the old country receiving the Queen, lie could not have made greater assertions,-In fact, I am quite vexed about it as the expense of his preparations must have been very considerable, and they quite exceed what we needed, for instance, he has built a large Reception Room, and two offices for the Colonel and myself, which are quite equal to those at Rideau, and in the minutest details has forgotten nothing.

Ottawa store, linking it to the Rideau Centre, and pointed out that this expenditure had involved considerable financing costs.