noun, masculine/ʁi.vaʒ/plural: rivages
bank; shore; coast
“Que n'ai-je ? Une planche de salut, loin du métro, de son raffut, les yeux rivés sur le rivage, oublier ton lointain visage.” — What do I not have? A lifeline, far from the metro and all that racket. My eyes glued to the shore to forget your distant face.
Inherited from Old French rivage, from Late Latin rīpāticum. Equivalent to by surface analysis, rive + -age.