English

Noun

rivage ‎(plural rivages)

1. (now rare, poetic) A coast, a shore.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xxj, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:

     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

   • 1892, Michael Field, "The Death of Procris"

     ...leaves have taken flight

     From yon

     Slim seedling-birch on the rivage, the flock

     Of herons has the quiet of solitude...

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

   • Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

     From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical.

2. (law, Britain, historical) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.

French

Etymology

rive +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.vaʒ/
• Homophone: rivages
• Hyphenation: ri‧vage

Noun

rivage m ‎(plural rivages)

1. bank; shore; coast

Anagrams

• virage

Old French

Noun

rivage m ‎(oblique plural rivages, nominative singular rivages, nominative plural rivage)

1. riverbank or shore

Descendants

• English: rivage (borrowed)
• French: rivage

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rivage, supplement)
• rivage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub