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countable and uncountable, plural rivages
(now rare, poetic) A coast, a shore. quotations
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(please add an English translation of this quotation)
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII
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
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, part V, page 25
[…] leaves have taken flightFrom yonSlim seedling-birch on the rivage, the flockOf herons has the quiet of solitude […]
1892, Michael Field, The Death of Procris
(law, UK, historical) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.