Crossword clues for rivage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rivage \Riv"age\, n. [F., fr. L. ripa bank, shore.]
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A bank, shore, or coast. [Archaic]
--Spenser.From the green rivage many a fall Of diamond rillets musical.
--Tennyson. (O.Eng.Law) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.
Wiktionary
n. (label en now rare poetic) A coast, a shore.
Usage examples of "rivage".
Ensuite commence, le long du rivage sur les galets, la seule rue du bourg.
Pop drew up the Rolls outside the Hotel Beau Rivage at half past six in the evening of the last day of August a gale was raging in from the Atlantic that made even the sturdy blue fishing boats in the most sheltered corners of the little port look like a battered wreckage of half-drowned match-stalks.
Rolls finally drew away from the Beau Rivage at half past one only two people besides Mademoiselle Dupont and M.
In fact when he had last seen her, in Nyon, at the Beau Rivage, she was already altered.
For some reason he sent a card to her, care of the Beau Rivage, one year after their last communication.
Even his mother had abandoned her former intransigence, and had written to her sister care of the Beau Rivage in Nyon, the Nyon she had never visited, nor was likely to visit.
Anachronisms, spending busy idle wealthy days, such as his aunt Anna had spent at the Beau Rivage, with her daughter as a guarantee of her respectability.
He had a sudden memory of the dinner at the Beau Rivage, after his impetuous and wrong-headed proposal.
He too would like to have lived at the Beau Rivage, thinking such a place a dignified representation of his life as an exile.
He and she would meet at the Beau Rivage, for an unspecified length of time.
In a moment of dizziness, both mental and physical, he saw himself moving on, the Beau Rivage another home to which he might or might not return.
Instead of which he had condemned himself to further childlessness, since the residents of the Beau Rivage would not be young, would indeed be drawn together by the camaraderie of the impaired.
It was Mother who encouraged Mellerio, who was in the habit of meeting business acquaintances at the Beau Rivage for dinner or a glass of champagne.
Mellerio died he left enough money for us to live quite comfortably at the Beau Rivage for a few years, though not enough to live there when Mother became unwell.
And the only way I could return to the Beau Rivage would be with a man at my side.