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a road so wide it began as a demolished city wall.
means A broad, often tree-lined city street, typically grander and more spacious than an ordinary road.
from From French boulevard, borrowed from a Dutch or Germanic word — bolwerc, the ancestor of English 'bulwark,' meaning a rampart or fortified wall. The essence has it exactly right: when cities tore down their old defensive walls, the wide flat tops were paved into promenades, so the word for the fortification became the word for the leisurely street that replaced it.
- origin
- from Dutch bolwerk, meaning bulwark or rampart
- paris flex
- Haussmann bulldozed medieval streets to build them wide
- riot proof
- width made barricades harder to throw up
- tree lined
- the rows of trees are practically the legal definition
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paseo de la reforma — major avenue in mexico city, mexico, 14 km long, built in the 1860s with monuments and modern architecture