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right bank

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right bank [′rīt ¦baŋk]
(navigation)
That bank of a stream or river on the right of the observer when he is facing in the direction of flow, or downstream.
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Neglecting here the originalities, of secondary importance in old Paris, and the capricious regulations regarding the public highways, we will say, from a general point of view, taking only masses and the whole group, in this chaos of communal jurisdictions, that the island belonged to the bishop, the right bank to the provost of the merchants, the left bank to the Rector; over all ruled the provost of Paris, a royal not a municipal official.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
Beyond this rock they passed the mouth of a river on the right bank of the Columbia, which appeared to take its rise in a distant mountain covered with snow.
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He pointed to an oasis of blackish green in the huge half-mown wet meadow that stretched along the right bank of the river.
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