单词 | riva |
释义 | rivan. 1. A pavement running alongside a Venetian canal. Also more generally: any waterfront or promenade. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > [noun] staithec893 cliffeOE overeOE wartha1000 strandc1000 brimc1275 brinka1300 rivagec1330 water bankc1384 cleevea1387 watersidea1387 clifta1398 rival?a1400 shorec1400 water breach1495 common shorea1568 verge1606 praia1682 riva1819 splash zone1933 society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay wharf10.. staithe1338 quay1399 lading1594 staithe1613 bankshall1681 riverfront1751 dock1817 riva1819 embarcadero1850 landing-quay1861 the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] > of river sidec1275 rive1296 bankc1303 brae1330 riversidea1425 brook-sidec1450 ripec1475 pleyc1503 riverbanka1522 burn-sidec1540 greave1579 wharf1603 watera1800 riva1819 brook-bank1861 riverine1864 hag1886 1819 W. S. Rose Lett. from N. Italy I. xxviii. 283 There is sometimes a wharf or a footway along the banks of the rii, (called a riva). 1888 H. James Aspern Papers I. i. 13 The old palace..overlooked a..canal, which had a narrow riva or convenient footway on either side. 1909 J. Joyce Let. 7 Sept. (1966) II. 249 I long to see the lights twinkling along the riva as the train passes Miramar. 1921 G. Bruno Fragments from Greenwich Village 21 There are cafes..on the rivas of small Italian coast cities. 1999 B. Ravid in E. E. Kittell & T. F. Madden Medieval & Renaissance Venice xi. 238 The two sides of the Ghetto Nuovo..were to be walled up, as were all the rive. 2. spec. With the and capital initial. The Riva degli Schiavoni, the main waterfront in Venice facing the San Marco Canal. ΚΠ 1839 C. A. Southey in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 759 The voyage was done; the Riva won, From whence we put to sea. 1880 F. J. Sitwell tr. C. Yriarte Venice p. xii The Riva and its Denizens. 1912 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 528/1 I had no desire to move from a room that looked down upon the Riva, and across to San Giorgio. 1967 Burlington Mag. Aug. 457/1 Another [painting] shows the Riva in the opposite direction. 1999 M. Hulse tr. W. G. Sebald Vertigo (2000) ii. 60 I returned to the bar on the Riva and fell into conversation with a Venetian by the name of Malachio. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1819 |
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