Other forms: promenades
A promenade is the wide walkway along a seafront made for slow evening strolls. Walk the promenade, along the promenade, the seafront promenade.
The whole point was to be seen as much as to walk, and Victorian seaside towns built them for exactly that. The Proms are named from the promenade concert, where the audience stood and could move about. The French promener means to walk.
1nounpromenadeA wide walkway along a seafront.
“We walked along the promenade eating ice cream and watching the waves.”
promenade is a walkway.
PROMenade → a PROPER slow walk
The proper place for a slow walk by the sea in the evening.
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French promenade comes from promener, to take for a walk, from Latin prominare, to drive forward.
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English, today
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French promenade, from promener (“to walk”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in In the City