boulevard

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  1. noun A broad city street, often tree-lined and landscaped.
  2. noun Upper Midwest See parking. See Regional Note at parking.
  3. noun Chiefly Midwestern U.S. See median strip. See Regional Note at neutral ground.

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  • For chess enthusiasts, the Librairie St. Germain on the boulevard is a place given over to chess books and texts dealing with games of strategy.
  • On the upper side of the boulevard was a little lake. —  041 - The Black Spot
  • What was drawing the bystanders on the boulevard was a cat, a big tabby cat, crouched right at the end of a branch. —  Maigret's Revolver - Georges Simenon - 68
  • Beyond Porte Saint-Martin the boulevard was again free as far as the Bastile, with the exception of a single barricade, which had been begun opposite the Château d'Eau. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Napoleon the Little, by Victor Hugo
  • Down what is often described as a boulevard of broken dreams - a dizzying ride with 14 different minor league teams, until he skated his last shift with the American Hockey League's Adirondack Red Wings in the spring of —  Thestar.com - Home Page
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thoroughfare ·  plaza ·  avenue ·  promenade ·  walkway ·  terrace ·  sidewalk ·  roadway ·  mall ·  highway ·  driveway ·  courtyard

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boulevard:   boulevards
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French, from Old French bollevart, rampart converted to a promenade, from Middle Dutch bolwerc, bulwark; see bulwark.

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  1. F.; older forms boulevert, bouleverc, from D. or Middle Low German bolwerk, German bollwerk, bulwark: see bulwark.
 

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