Crossword clues for riviera
riviera
- European resort area
- Monte Carlo locale
- Where Tanguy may have got tan?
- Mediterranean hot spot
- Jet-set destination
- Casino on the Vegas Strip
- Where Cannes is
- Vacation spot in France or Italy
- Saint-Tropez site
- Ritzy European vacation area
- Resort region
- Region off the Côte d'Azur
- Region Monaco falls into
- Portofino's surroundings
- Nice spot?
- Nice place?
- Monaco's region
- Mediterranean holiday area
- Mediterranean coastal region
- Jet-set playground
- Jet setter's destination
- Italian ___ (resort area)
- French vacationland
- French resort region
- French Mediterranean holiday area
- French ___ (resort area)
- French ___ (resort area on the Mediterranean)
- European vacation site
- Coastal resort
- Coastal region between Cannes and La Spezia
- Coastal hot spot
- Coastal area between Cannes and Italy
- Casino where "Casino" was filmed
- Cannes's region
- Cannes setting
- Cannes locale
- San Remo locale
- Nice location
- Saint-Tropez locale
- San Remo setting
- "To Catch a Thief" setting
- Region off the CГґte d'Azur
- "Tender Is the Night" locale, with "the"
- A coastal area between La Spezia in Italy and Cannes in France
- Area from Cannes to La Spezia
- Côte d'Azur
- Where the jet set gets wet
- French playground
- Where the jet set may get wet
- Where the jet set lets it all hang out
- From La Spezia, Italy, to Hyères, France
- Resort area of Europe
- La Spezia's locale
- Contend river in swirling atmosphere is a holiday spot
- Coastal resort area
- After I struggle through two rivers, a warm coast
- Warm coastal region
- Warm coastal district
- Struggle to take in atmosphere round holiday hotspot
- Shannon maybe embracing one by a holiday destination
- Nice region?
- First of irises in flower on a gorgeous stretch of coastline
- Feature of Italy and France
- Perhaps the Po floods Italy and a part of coastal France
- Part of Med coast
- Berlin quartet plugging song around holiday location
- I visited Mexican painter here in the south of France
- I arrive dishevelled in coastal region
- Disorganised, I arrive in holiday area
- Mediterranean resort area
- European resort
- Mediterranean resort
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Mediterranean seacoast around Genoa, 1630s, from Italian riviera, literally "bank, shore" (see river). In extended use, the coast from Marseilles to La Spezia, which became popular 19c. as a winter resort. Thence adopted (sometimes ironically) in reference to areas of other countries, as in American Riviera (Florida, 1887); English Riviera (Devonshire coast, 1882).
Wiktionary
n. Any coastal area popular with tourists.
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Riviera, , is an Italian word which means "coastline", ultimately derived from Latin ripa, through Ligurian rivea. It came to be applied as a proper name to the coast of Liguria, in the form riviera ligure, then shortened to riviera. The two areas currently known in English as "The Riviera" without additional qualification are:
- the French Riviera, part of the southern coast of France and
- the Italian Riviera, part of the coast of Italy.
Riviera may be also applied to any coastline, especially one that is sunny, topographically diverse and popular with tourists. Such places called Riviera include:
Riviera (colloquially, "the Riv") was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada, which operated from April 1955 to May 2015. It was last owned by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, which decided to demolish it to make way for the Las Vegas Global Business District.
The hotel had over 2,100 rooms, less than half of which were located in a 23-story tower. The casino had of gaming space.
The district of Riviera is a district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It has a population of (as of ). The capital of the district is Osogna.
The Riviera is a song written and composed by Cy Coleman and Joseph McCarthy, Jr. in 1956. The song was made popular by cabaret singer Mabel Mercer but the version best known is that performed by Blossom Dearie.
Category:1956 songs Category:Songs with music by Cy Coleman
Riviera is an old term for the coast of Liguria now more generally applied to any coastal area popular with tourists.
Riviera may also refer to:
Riviera is a 1971–1974 rusted and varnished steel sculpture by Anthony Caro, formerly installed at Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, Washington.
Usage examples of "riviera".
The princess was on her way to the Riviera but promised to stop in Albania on her return in September, bringing with her a young grandson as a playmate for Nubar.
Ignacio Bozal had suddenly appeared in Acapulco with a bankroll big enough to buy and renovate a broken-down resort hotel and open for business just before the birth of the Mexican Riviera.
He saw it now as a small and simple place, for small and simple people, but with pleasant rooms, and food that should be an event--the real descendant of such inns as the Cat and Fiddle, with no bastard union with the Riviera.
And a young man entered whom we recognised at once as the chief clerk in the Foreign Department of the Credit Marseillais, the principal bank all along the Riviera.
Later, another small listening post, made up of vans the size of semitrailer trucks, was established at Dahme on the German Riviera.
Kennedy had said not to a press conference in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, nor to the sixty-nine million Americans who had voted, but to just one American that interested Tom Jefferson more when, on the ninth day of November 1960, he left his home in Miami Shores and drove to the safe house at 6312 Riviera Drive in Coral Gables to meet Frank Sorges and to hear that much-vaunted tape.
Caroline Abbott had the greatest difficulty in dissuading her from the Riviera.
He could take the road to Ventimiglia thus taking advantage of the new autoroutes westwards along the Riviera or take the shorter but more winding direct route to Nice.
Together with Sojourn and his daughter, I took Athena and a guitar, and we hit the open cafes up and down the Italian Riviera.
The scavenging squirrels were too heavy to climb and sit upon the privet-they swayed, they swooped-but they had learned to cling to and inch along the clothesline, perilously upside down yet agile as French Riviera diamond thieves, to attain the prize.
And the Riviera went into it with the excellent sound of blubs, by God.
It was one of many official holiday datchas along the favourite stretch of mountainous coastline that is part of the Russian Riviera.
There was an inverted symmetry: Riviera puts the dreamgirl together, the dreamgirl takes him apart.
Janet had put down earnest money on a Buick Riviera at Quality Pre-owned Cars in Farmington and had asked Chee to test-drive it for her.
The Riviera, with its jet-setters and high-roller socialites, has been drug-dealer heaven for a long, long time.