allée

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for allée
Noun
  • From the street, a red brick walkway flanked by drought-tolerant landscaping leads to the front door.
    Angela Serratore, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • In the video footage, Jeffrey is seen riding from the schoolyard toward the walkway on a scooter, police said.
    Megan Forrester, ABC News, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Those with umbrellas have put them up; those without were sent scurrying for shelter under the 284 colonnades that flank the square, built from marble and travertine by architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the 17th century.
    NBC News, NBC news, 7 May 2025
  • Long, wide windows overlooked a colonnade of palm trees.
    Maggie Shannon, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Or are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?
    Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.
    Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
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“Allée.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/all%C3%A9e. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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