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Definition of Riviera
1. Noun. A coastal area between La Spezia in Italy and Cannes in France. "The Riviera contains some of Europe's most popular resorts"
Group relationships: Italia, Italian Republic, Italy, France, French Republic
Terms within: Cote D'azur, French Riviera
Definition of Riviera
1. Proper noun. The coastal area of southern France and north-western Italy between Cannes and La Spezia ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Riviera
1. a coastal resort area [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riviera
Literary usage of Riviera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1903)
"riviera—continued. MALCOLM (A.) Letten of an Invalid from the South of France,
1826-28. pp. ... WOLF (G.) Das Erdbeben an der riviera 23 Feb. 1887. pp. 36. ..."
2. Memories and Thoughts by Frederic Harrison (1906)
"THE riviera DI LEVANTE I OFTEN wonder how people of taste and sense can continue
to crowd into the Frenchified, vulgarised, and stuffy western end of the ..."
3. Memories and Thoughts by Frederic Harrison (1906)
"THE riviera DI LEVANTE I OFTEN wonder how people of taste and sense can continue
to crowd into the Frenchified, vulgarised, and stuffy western end of the ..."
4. Northern Italy, Including Leghorn, Florence, Ravenna and Routes Through by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1913)
"On the riviera di Levante, or coast to the E. of Genoa., tka vegetation is less
luxuriant than on the riviera. but the scenery is almost more striking. ..."
5. Americans in Europe by George Monroe Royce (1893)
"AMERICANS ON THE riviera. NICE. NICE is the centre around which Americans flock
on the riviera. And they show their good sense, too, by preferring it to any ..."
6. By Italian Seas by Ernest Peixotto (1906)
"Ill THE riviera DI LEVANTE TO my mind, the prettiest places on the Italian
riviera—or, for that matter, on either riviera —are beyond Genoa, southward on ..."
7. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1892)
"It is necessary to consult one's geography, before the general features as well
as the numerous local peculiarities of the riviera climate can be properly ..."
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