avenue

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At the end of the avenue is the church of St. Honorat, on the site of the chapel founded by Trophimus the Ephesian, one of St. Paul’s converts, who was sent to Arles to preach the gospel and to put an end to human sacrifices.

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  1. noun A wide street or thoroughfare.
  2. noun A broad roadway lined with trees.
  3. noun Chiefly British The drive leading from the main road up to a country house.
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  • The earth is on the top of a steep wooded bank, and between this and the avenue is a small clearing of about thirty yards square. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • Evening along this avenue was a question of the clock. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • This avenue is a great business centre, and at almost all times a scene of animated interest, while at its head stand prominently a cathedral and a convent. —  The World As I Have Found It
  • I rev up the Vespa and fly off the curb just as the traffic barreling down the avenue is about to slam into me, the sky dark and rolling behind it, the black Jeep stuck on the far side of the light. —  Glamorama
  • It was Sunday, a radiant, flowerful Easter morning and the avenue was a pageant of lilies and cutaways and happy April-colored bonnets. —  Tales of the Jazz Age
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  1. French, from Old French, arrival, from feminine past participle of avenir, to approach, from Latin advenīre, to come to; see advent.

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  1. Formerly also advenue, avenew, from French avenue, orig. past participle feminine of avenir, from Latin advenire, come to, from ad, to, + venire, come. Cf. advene.
 

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