the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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This also follows Barcelona residents taking matters into their own hands in July 2024, when 3,000 residents protested against tourism by squirting visitors with water guns on Las Ramblas boulevard.—Charna Flam, People.com, 22 Apr. 2025 The former Probation Department lot offers a hideaway bounded by Crenshaw and Obama boulevards and the Expo Line and is sealed off from a row of apartment buildings to its west by a tall wall and shrubbery.—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025 At its best, that’s what the Champs Élysées tastes like—like walking the boulevard early summer, the sunlight cascading through the chestnut trees.—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2025 Inside Austin’s bitcoin clubhouse Bitcoin Commons sits on the second floor of the Littlefield Building at the corner of Congress Avenue and Sixth Street — where the broad boulevard to the Capitol collides with the noisy sprawl of Austin’s nightlife district.—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 12 Apr. 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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