Etymology

riverrun

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Today it means: The course a river shapes through a landscape. Full definition →

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The story

From Finnegans Wake, a novel written by James Joyce. First sentence of the novel: Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

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