Sabine River
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4.6
- proper noun
- For myself, I had no terror beyond the terror of the moment: I see myself at sixteen, swinging bare-headed and barefoot onto the back of your Harley, making the trip down a rutted dirt road to the field alongside the Sabine River, where we were married among a circle of friends.
Examples
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Both our wagons came across the Sabine River without losing wheels or breaking loose from the harnesses holding them to the mules, and the water that rose inside them did nothing but wet our goods.
Fiction book (2002) -
We'd already crossed the Sabine River into Louisiana and I'd pointed it out to Mr. Chinh, the first words spoken in the car for an hour.
Fiction book (1990) -
Up here is the Sabine River.
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"Oh," my husband says, "Carolina," and then his feet are wet, and he's knee-deep in the Sabine River, out of Louisiana into a moving stream, and Texas is over there waiting on the bank as solid as a green tree stump just after it's been cut.
Fiction book (2002) -
We are standing for the last time in Louisiana, watching the ruts that wagons have made as they vanish beneath the waters of the Sabine River, and Amos is wearing the same coat he had on when he walked back from Virginia two years ago.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Sabine River flows gracefully through eastern Texas, forming part of the border with Louisiana.
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Many families enjoy fishing along the banks of the Sabine River during the warm summer months.
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The Sabine River is known for its scenic beauty and is a popular spot for kayaking and canoeing.
Synonyms
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8.2
A river in eastern Texas that flows into the Gulf of Mexico and forms part of the border with Louisiana
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward place-name formed by a proper name + the noun 'river'; a B1 learner who knows 'river' and recognizes 'Sabine' as a name will understand it denotes the river called Sabine (even if they do not know its location). The construction is fully compositional and cross-linguistically common, not idiomatic or metaphorical.
Etymology
Sabine River got its name from early Spanish explorers who called it 'Río Sabinas' after the many 'sabina' trees, a kind of juniper, growing along its banks. So the tree name stayed with the waterway, and today we still call it Sabine River.