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the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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The main parade begins at Bay to Bay and Bayshore boulevards and continues along downtown to Brorein Street, then turns on Ashley Drive.
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Michelle Stark, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2025
Students walking or biking to Grant Union High School must cross the boulevard to get to neighborhoods to the east.
—Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
Just up the boulevard is his other go-to, Grocery Outlet.
—Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2025
The overlapping ethnic communities found life and commerce in the boulevard's vintage buildings.
—Tara Prindiville, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
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Michelle Stark, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2025
Students walking or biking to Grant Union High School must cross the boulevard to get to neighborhoods to the east.
—Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
Just up the boulevard is his other go-to, Grocery Outlet.
—Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2025
The overlapping ethnic communities found life and commerce in the boulevard's vintage buildings.
—Tara Prindiville, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulevard. Accessed 22 Feb. 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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