单词 | rive droite |
释义 | rive droiten. = right bank n. at right adj. and int. Compounds 2. Cf. rive gauche n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] > of river > right right bank1600 rive droite1797 1797 T. W. Tone Mem. (1827) II. 184 Crossed the Rhine to-day, on the pont volant, and took possession of the rive droite in the name of the Republic. 1853 Tait's Edinb. Mag. May 268 [Prussia] could not join a French and Russian alliance, without the sacrifice of its possessions on the rive gauche, while what it might gain in immediate compensation on the rive droite of Rhine or of Elbe, would be lost in moral power. 1865 Times 21 Dec. 8/4 In vain will the visitor, weary of the perpetual sameness of the renovated rive droite, cross the river in search of peace and satisfaction in the Students' Quarter. 1907 D. Menpes Paris vii. 101 You have only to cross one of the bridges leading from the Rive Droite to the Rive Gauche to notice the difference. 1978 Burlington Mag. July 479/3 In May and June it was the Rive Droite which offered some specially interesting and significant shows in the galleries. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Dec. ix. 2/1 Tourists may divide Paris into Rive Gauche and Rive Droite, but Parisians are pickier and slice it much more finely, by quarters. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1797 |
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