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单词 riva
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rivan.

Brit. /ˈriːvə/, U.S. /ˈrivə/
Inflections: Plural rive, rivas;
Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian riva.
Etymology: < Italian riva riverbank, seashore, in Venice also specifically ‘pavement alongside a canal’ (1581: see rive n.1).
1. A pavement running alongside a Venetian canal. Also more generally: any waterfront or promenade.
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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
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bankc1303
brae1330
riversidea1425
brook-sidec1450
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pleyc1503
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burn-sidec1540
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wharf1603
watera1800
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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.
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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).
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