The word 'rive' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means to split, divide, or tear apart forcibly. You can use 'rive' when describing a physical action of forcefully separating or dividing something, such as riving wood or rocks. For example, "The lumberjack used his strong axe to rive the logs into smaller pieces for firewood."
Correction to this articleBEHIND an unassuming courtyard door off the rue de Babylone on the rive gauche in Paris, an art-and-design collection like no other awaits dispersal.
They are capable of the most grovelling America-worship as well as the most grotesque anti-Americanism: just try changing the subject on the rive gauche from the evils of George Bush to the wonders of Woody Allen.All of which adds to the suspense about Bernard-Henry Lévy's new book, "American Vertigo".
Ballads are normally composed in two kinds of stanzas; the first consists of a couplet of lines each with four stressed syllables, and with an interwoven refrain: But it would have made your heart right sair, With a hey ho and a lillie gay To see the bridegroom rive his haire.
It's not just that this is where she shared a flat on the Rive Gauche (along with a Burgundy farmhouse, an hour and a half south of the city) with her former husband of 17 years, the fertility doctor François Olivennes.
These novels La Danse du roi (1960; "The Dance of the King"), Qui se souvient de la mer (1962; Who Remembers the Sea), Cours sur la rive sauvage (1964; "Run on the Wild Shore"), Dieu en barbarie (1970; "God in Barbary"), Le Maître de chasse (1973; "The Hunt Master"), and Habel (1977)—like the early novels, express optimism in the brotherhood of mankind.
The Seine's Left Bank (Rive Gauche) has traditionally been the seat of intellectual life, and its Right Bank (Rive Droite) contains the heart of the city's economic life, but the distinctions have become blurred in recent decades.
To reach the château from central Paris, the easy way is on RER line C to Versailles-Rive Gauche, but a more interesting journey involves taking the overground train from Gare St-Lazare, curling around the north of Paris to the Art Deco station of Versailles-Chantiers. To see the Independent Traveller's short video on Versailles, visit independent.co.uk/Versailles.
Polka dots (so Rive Gauche).
Four years later, following Ford's failed contract negotiations, Pilati replaced him with the blessing of Yves Saint Laurent himself as creative director of YSL's ready-to-wear line, Rive Gauche.
PIERRE BERG? the old devil, has just a released a book, "La R lution de la Mode," about the beginnings of Yves Saint Laurent's Rive Gauche, in 1966, and its impact.
"There's no market saturation in any state; not even close," says Lyndon Rive of SolarCity, a solar-installation firm.
