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Rivière

Jewellery
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A necklace made from a continuous line of gemstones. The stones form a bright flowing strand around the neck.

Detailed Definition
A rivière is a necklace composed of gemstones arranged in a continuous graduating or evenly matched stream. Its French name, meaning river, makes it naturally suited to poetic comparisons with water, stars, tears, or a current of captured light. A diamond rivière can suggest formal luxury, but its flowing line also softens that grandeur into movement. Around the throat, it may appear as a luminous boundary between speech and silence.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Her rivière was a river of diamonds at the throat” uses the necklace’s continuous line of stones as a flowing metaphor; A poet can describe a rivière catching candlelight to create a scene of wealth, glamour, or artifice; “The rivière’s cold stars circled her silence” turns the jeweled necklace into an emotional image of distance; In a dramatic monologue, a pawned rivière can suggest a fallen social position or a desperate sacrifice
Additional Notes
The unbroken gemstone line gives a rivière its sense of flow. Compare a necklace described as a river, chain, or stream of light.
Also Known As
Riviere Rivière Necklace
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