rivage

plural rivages

1. archaiccountablepoeticuncountableA coast, a shore.

   Pactolus with his waters shere Throwes forth upon the rivage

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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   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

   1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII

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

   1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, part V, page 25

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

   1892, Michael Field, The Death of Procris

2. UKcountablehistoricaluncountablelawA duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.