Keeping Up Appearances vocabulary

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riparian

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Definition:
of or alongside the banks of a rivulet, river, creek or other flowing body of fresh water
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[dredger dumps water on Hyacinth and Richard]
Liz: Emmet, look!
Vicar: Thank you Lord! Well, we haven’t had the picnic, but I must say I enjoyed the riparian entertainments.

BBC. Keeping Up Appearances: A Riverside Picnic
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His reed pipe when applied to his lips gave out no melody, but a dismal wail; the sylvan and riparian intelligences no longer thronged the thicket-side to listen, but fled from the sound, as he knew by the stirred leaves and bent flowers.

Ambrose Bierce. Can Such Things Be?
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