Other forms: boulevards
A boulevard is a wide grand city street lined with trees. A leafy boulevard, walk the boulevard, boulevard cafes.
The Paris ones were cut through the medieval city in the nineteenth century, and the width served crowd control as well as air and light. The word is a surprise: it comes from a Dutch word for a rampart, because the first boulevards were built on the line of demolished city walls.
1nounboulevardA wide grand city street lined with trees.
“Cafés and shops line the wide boulevard that leads down to the river.”
boulevard is a street.
Also accepted in games: avenue
French boulevard comes from a Dutch or German word meaning a rampart. The first boulevards ran along demolished city walls.
Proto-Indo-European
*werǵ-
French
boulevard
English, today
boulevard
Built from
Borrowed from French boulevard. French boulevard, from Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). a doublet of bulwark; more at bole, work.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA