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...
- Vistulan Boulevards may refer to: Vistulan Boulevards, Kraków Vistulan Boulevards, Warsaw This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with the title...
- 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...
- 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...
- The Grands Boulevards (French: Les Grands Boulevards) is an oil on canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in 1875. The painting illustrates...
- 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...
- Look up Boulevard or boulevard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A boulevard is a type of road, typically a wider more formal road. Boulevard may also...
- 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...
- 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...