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Riviera|rɪvɪˈɛərə|
Also riviera.
[It., lit. ‘coast, shore’.]
1. The name of the Italian sea-board about Genoa, applied also to the Mediterranean coast from Marseilles in France to La Spezia in Italy, a fashionable winter resort in the 19th century and more recently popular for summer holidays; usu. with the. Also attrib. Cf. river n.1 3.
[1632: see root n.1 4 c] .1766J. Northall Trav. through Italy vi. ii. 471 The dominions of this State consist of the countries extending along the sea-coast, on both sides, from the city of Genoa, which are called the eastern and western Rivieras. This word in Italian signifies a strand. 1797Encycl. Brit. VII. 426/2 The people of Genoa revolted..and reduced a great part of the Riviera. 1852Dickens in Keepsake 120 He had hired an old place on the Riviera, at an easy distance from my city, Genoa. 1863Geo. Eliot Let. Oct. (1956) IV. 111, I shall imagine you winding along the Riviera, and then settling in sight of beautiful things. 1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto II. ii. i. 270, I had better take a hansom to the Riviera at once. 1909C. F. G. Masterman Condition of England ii. 57 In Biarritz, Pau, Dinard—he might have said in the whole côte d'azur of the Riviera—‘the English have conquered us,’ he declares. 1939S. de Madariaga Christopher Columbus iii. 25 Eating and drinking..in that Genoese riviera so sunny and full of the joy of existence. 1941Koestler Scum of Earth 28 There was an elderly Riviera-Englishman on the platform. 1978Times 18 Mar. 11/1 The Riviera or Cote d'Azur has a special affinity with the English who apart from the Romans were its first holidaymakers.
2. transf. Applied to other coastal regions considered to resemble the Mediterranean Riviera. Also with a and pl., and attrib.
1891M. F. Sweetser King's Handbk. U.S. 175 The old convents and churches..and the yachting in the adjacent waters, furnish a great variety of interest for visitors to the American Riviera. 1904Railway Mag. Sept. 258 ‘The Riviera Express’ is the title chosen by Mr. J. C. Inglis, the General Manager of the Great Western Railway, as the most apposite name for the Plymouth-Paddington non-stop express. 1910Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1126 Lyme Regis, Dorset. Hotel Alexandra... The only hotel in its own grounds in the English Riviera. 1911Heath & Haslehurst (title) The Cornish Riviera. 1922Wodehouse Girl on Boat xvii. 307 ‘Why not Cornwall?’ said Sam. ‘The Riviera of England!’ 1951W. Sansom Face of Innocence iii. 36 He did not know the rivieras, I knew them well. 1974Sat. Rev. World (U.S.) 19 Oct. 43/1 Every properly equipped nation must have a Riviera. |