the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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America’s hometown has open arms for all things Mexican food, with choices up and down the main boulevards.—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025 His civic service helped lay the groundwork for a parks and boulevards system that remains a defining feature of Kansas City’s identity.—Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025 The 20,000-square-foot store will replace PetSmart in the Renaissance Creek shopping center at the southwest corner of Douglas and Sierra College boulevards.—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2025 This quintessential coastline is as much ingrained in the city’s DNA as are its famous hills and iconic boulevards.—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 20 Oct. 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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