Citations:riviere

English citations of riviere and rivière

• 1857, Anne Marsh-Caldwell, The Rose of Ashurst, page 287:

  Such a necklace! — a riviere they call it — it really is quite dazzling — and her dress!

• 1904 October 19, “People of interest”, in The Bystander, page 213:

  She is always exquisitely dressed, and has started two fashions which have proved very popular among Society women. One is the wearing of the upstanding aigrette in the hair, and another, a riviere of precious stones, not as a necklace, but strung across the front of the bodice.

• 1913, Amanda Pain, “Her Ladyship’s Jewels”, in The Nine of Diamonds and Other Plays, page 88:

  Lady Yardley. Certainly. [Takes off necklace and places it on table. He licks his lips.] Perhaps without the riviere but with the tiara alone―?
  John Cridoc. Let me see you without either—and without the earrings.

• [1967, Ernest Weekley, An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, page 1242:

  rivière. Necklace of gems. F., river (v.i.).]

• 1995 November/December, Sherry Babbit, “Diamonds: Nature’s most enduring creation”, in Tampa Bay Magazine, page 74:

  On Marilyn Monroe, a rivière necklace is fun and frivolous; on Lauren Bacall, it appears cool and understated.

• 2006, Ulysses Grant Dietz, “A gold standard for the gilded age”, in Clare Philips, editor, Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837-1987, page 50:

  The enormous diamond rivière necklace and solitaire earrings (valued at $80,000 and $16,000 respectively) were clearly of more geological than artistic merit.