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rivage


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rivage  \Riv"age\,  n.  [F.,  fr  L.  ripa  bank,  shore.] 
  1.  A  bank,  shore,  or  coast.  [Archaic]  --Spenser. 
 
  From  the  green  rivage  many  a  fall  Of  diamond  rillets 
  musical.  --Tennyson. 
 
  2.  (O.Eng.Law)  A  duty  paid  to  the  crown  for  the  passage  of 
  vessels  on  certain  rivers.