Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Rivage
A rivage is a poetical term for a shore, bank or coastline. I'll remember that next time I'm delving into that particular literary style. For now, though, I'm happy to dwell on the invented meanings which took a wide variety of directions, all clever and innovative. I particularly enjoyed the meaning invented by Bee - and so did the voters. Great work, Bee. I believe you!
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Rivage is an archaic word meaning 'a joust between rivals'.
A day of rivage would see knights in armour, atop their horses, with their maidens' tokens stuffed in their inside-pockets (all armour has an inside-pocket by the way) and the jousting would commence.
The most famous and successful jouster was one James the Jubilent, known affectionately and Jimmie the Joyful.
A rivage is a sudden spray of water, usually muddy, caused by a car being driven at speed through a puddle, thus soaking a pedestrian standing at the kerb waiting to cross the road. This phenomenon nearly always occurs when said pedestrian on the way to work, an interview, wedding or other important event.
Rivage(v)- to despoil something (e.g. ravage) but with your eyes closed.
The Vikings weren't a bad bunch, and indeed many english townships were rivaged by the vikings because they didn't want a reputation for rape and pillage.
P.S. Thanks for solidungular - I'm off to find a well baked frisbee!!
A rivage is a legal document detailing water rights to a river. Normally, the document describes how some person, corporation, or government entity can take so many cubic feet per minute at such-and-such time of the year, but it can also simply state that certain people or farms can have access to the water.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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It's the moment of falling off one's seat after having been brought rather too close to the edge by a thrilling experience.
Rivages happen mostly in old houses or buildings. When you spill something, it creates a rivery path, thus a rivage. That is because old buildings "stoop" a little and the foundation leans a bit.
The pre-schooler accidently knocked her drink over, causing a rivage as it slowly seeped a path across the dining room floor instead of making a puddle.
Rivage is a variety of cabbage grown in wet areas and thriving near the banks of streams. It's not that tasty to be honest, being rather bitter and stringy in texture. Nonetheless, it's lately ben found on the menus of a few silly priced restaurants, who's chefs are desperately trying to find something other than samphire to show off with.
Rivage is the age an individual becomes able to settle disputes between others.
Rivage is the term applied to any card game played while absorbed in another task. The original game of Rivage was a variant of cribbage. Favoured by whitewater rafting enthusiasts, Rivage required paddlers to deal cards into transparent belts and to count fifteens while navigating rapids. Office workers commonly use the term to refer to games of solitaire played while being closely supervised.
Rivage is the opposite (in some sense) of a mirage - it is the illusion of absence.
For example, the other day I turned into what looked like a nicely situated empty parking space only to find that it was a rivage, as there was a bike parked there.
Rivage (n.) is the rivalry that often occurs between teenage siblings.
Rivage:
It is the equivalent of road rage for people on boats.
Since the first instance of rivage took place on a river, a husband refused to take responsibility for getting lost so his wife threw him overboard, they called it Riv-(after river)-age-(after rage).
Don't worry, she threw him a life jacket and a cell phone.
True story, you can read about it in some newspaper somewhere...
Rivage is a lowly ground-hugging flowering plant regarded by farmers as a weed. It tends to grow on ground that has rather sparse vegetation and its seeds are much loved by graminivorous birds such as finches. Recent farming practices, including the spraying of herbicides, has greatly diminished its distribution and is considered the main reason for the decline of the Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur in Britain.
Rivage is the term for the rate at which cotton thread will unravel from a torn seam. It is a term used in the garment industry. And that's the truth...
part of a river which flows under a bridge
Rivage, pronounced ri-vahzh', is the product of a Rivagler, (ri-vahzh'-ler) a device similar to a Bedazzler only instead of applying rhinestones a Rivagler applies rivets, grommets, studs and spikes.
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