Definition of Boulevards. Meaning of Boulevards. Synonyms of Boulevards

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Definition of Boulevards

Boulevard
Boulevard Bou"le*vard`, n. [F. boulevard, boulevart, fr. G. bollwerk. See Bulwark.] 1. Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town. 2. A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.

Meaning of Boulevards from wikipedia

- commercial district. Boulevards were originally cir****ferential roads following the line of former city walls. In North American usage, boulevards may be wide...
- The Grands Boulevards are the quintessence of the Parisian boulevards. Their origin is a plan initiated by Louis XIV's minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert in...
- The Boulevards of the Marshals (French: Boulevards des Maréchaux, pronounced [bulvaʁ de maʁeʃo]) are a collection of thoroughfares that encircle the city...
- The Vistulan Boulevards are historical hydraulic boulevards used for flood management in Kraków, Poland. The boulevards are structured from retaining walls...
- the term neighborways instead of bicycle boulevards. This added to a growing list of terms for bicycle boulevards since Portland has been calling them neighborhood...
- Gdański after Jan Karski. The reconstruction of the boulevards began in 2013. The opening of the boulevards was planned for the July, and then autumn of 2014...
- renamed to "Grands Boulevards" in 1998 to reflect the programme of the former Mayor of Paris, Jean Tiberi, to upgrade the main Boulevards of Paris and because...
- connected boulevards encircling the city. This inner quasi-ring road came to be known as the Boulevards of the Marshals, as most of the boulevards bear the...
- of Haussmann's boulevards was to make it easier for the army to crush po****r uprisings. According to these critics, the wide boulevards gave the army...
- green boulevards. In the 20th century, the width of the Boulevard Ring was expanded, as the formerly paved areas along the Pokrovsky Boulevard and Strastnoy...