Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A rift or cleft.

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Examples

  • I suggest to visit my blog: there is a Gull coming from the other side of the pond that return each winter in Riva degli Schiavoni and San Marco square to eat food offered by the people to the pigeons.

    The Lion of St. Mark 2005

  • Jerry was in Riva yesterday at the Hotel Sole d 'Oro.

    Jerry Junior 1907

  • Hotel Sole d 'Oro in Riva, and that 's at the other end of the lake.

    Jerry Junior 1907

  • I see, was mailed in Riva at ten o'clock last night.

    Jerry Junior 1907

  • Writer-director Djo Munga has put together a tough, sturdy thriller, centred around a smalltime hustler called Riva Patsha Bay, who shows up in the fuel-starved big city with a truckful of petrol he's liberated from his Angolan gangster employers.

    Viva Riva! – review 2011

  • Writer-director Djo Munga has put together a tough, sturdy thriller, centred around a smalltime hustler called Riva Patsha Bay, who shows up in the fuel-starved big city with a truckful of petrol he's liberated from his Angolan gangster employers.

    Viva Riva! – review 2011

  • “Give me back what you stole,” the girl called Riva said.

    i will plant you a lilac tree LAURA HILLMAN 2003

  • “Give me back what you stole,” the girl called Riva said.

    i will plant you a lilac tree LAURA HILLMAN 2003

  • Sclavonians, whose ships lay as a rule opposite that part of the city which is known as the Riva degli Schiavoni.

    A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

  • In the meantime the Riva was a pathway of rose-tinted clouds constructed for the especial use of two angels, one of whom wore a straw hat with a red ribbon canted over his sunburnt face, and the other a black shawl with silken fringe, whose every movement suggested

    The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

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