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Boulevard

Wide road with buildings on sides

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Park Avenue (Manhattan) . Looking south toward the MetLife Building from the 52nd Street intersection.
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In Europe, boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former city walls.

In North American usage, boulevards may be wide, multi-lane thoroughfares divided with only a central median.

Etymology

The word boulevard is borrowed from French. In France, it originally meant the flat surface of a rampart, and later a promenade taking the place of a demolished fortification. It is a borrowing from the Dutch word bolwerk 'bulwark'.

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