the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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The roadway will become a boulevard similar to national park roads, Botich said.—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025 The Santa Monica Pier, specifically north of Pico and south of Wilshire boulevards, is Los Angeles County’s only beach to make Heal the Bay’s list.—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025 With one entrance at La Rambla, a wide boulevard running through the heart of the city center, this is a popular place for lunch or a light snack at one of its many bars.—Jennifer Fernández Solano, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025 Deputies responded around 8 p.m. to a report of a stabbing in the 4000 block of Howard Street, near the intersection of Fair Oaks and Sunrise boulevards.—Sacbee.com, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for boulevard
Word History
Etymology
French, modification of Middle Dutch bolwerc bulwark
: a wide avenue often having grass strips with trees along its center or sides
Etymology
from French boulevard "walkway lined with trees," derived from early Dutch bolwerc "bulwark, rampart"; so called because the earliest boulevards were at sites of razed fortifications — related to bulwark
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