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the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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At its best, that’s what the Champs Élysées tastes like—like walking the boulevard early summer, the sunlight cascading through the chestnut trees.
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Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2025
Inside Austin’s bitcoin clubhouse Bitcoin Commons sits on the second floor of the Littlefield Building at the corner of Congress Avenue and Sixth Street — where the broad boulevard to the Capitol collides with the noisy sprawl of Austin’s nightlife district.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 12 Apr. 2025
On Saturday, tens of thousands of Christian churchgoers, military veterans and other mostly older people occupied the main boulevard in central Seoul, many sitting in neat rows of plastic chairs, holding signs that called for Mr. Yoon’s reinstatement.
—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
Drivers should take Sunrise and Davie boulevards as an alternative, or Griffin Road.
—Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
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Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2025
Inside Austin’s bitcoin clubhouse Bitcoin Commons sits on the second floor of the Littlefield Building at the corner of Congress Avenue and Sixth Street — where the broad boulevard to the Capitol collides with the noisy sprawl of Austin’s nightlife district.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 12 Apr. 2025
On Saturday, tens of thousands of Christian churchgoers, military veterans and other mostly older people occupied the main boulevard in central Seoul, many sitting in neat rows of plastic chairs, holding signs that called for Mr. Yoon’s reinstatement.
—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
Drivers should take Sunrise and Davie boulevards as an alternative, or Griffin Road.
—Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulevard. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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boulevard
noun
bou·le·vard
ˈbu̇l-ə-ˌvärd 
ˈbül-
: a wide avenue often having grass strips with trees along its center or sides
Etymology
from French boulevard "walkway lined with trees," derived from early Dutch bolwerc "bulwark, rampart"; so called because the earliest boulevards were at sites of razed fortifications — related to bulwark
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