单词 | rive gauche |
释义 | rive gauchen. = left bank n. 2. Cf. rive droite n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] > of river > left left bank1600 rive gauche1838 1838 Railway Mag. Mar. 69 It is said that the project of a railway on the Rive Gauche to Versailles will be abandoned. 1853 Tait's Edinb. Mag. May 268/1 It [sc. Prussia] could not join a French and Russian alliance, without the sacrifice of its possessions on the rive gauche. 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby I. ii. 51 Then back again to the quays on the rive gauche by the Pont Neuf. 1928 R. Hall Well of Loneliness xxxi. 289 Of course you'll have to live on this side, the Rive Gauche is the only possible Paris. 1948 A. Waugh Unclouded Summer ii. 16 It was his belief that the Americans who were creating an emigré Rive gauche colony had sold their birthright. 1977 Times 19 Feb. 9/1 Those whose shelves are filled with rarities, generally secured for ‘next to nothing’ on the Rive Gauche. 1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) v. 111 A noisy Rive Gauche café in Paris. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1838 |
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