allée

noun

Definition of alléenext
as in walkway

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  1. walkway
  2. colonnade
  3. alameda
Noun
  • That bed of gravel allows rainwater to soak into the ground, lessening runoff, and a paver walkway is a good way to handle a slope.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Beyond manually clearing your driveway and walkways with a shovel, modern technology provides other options.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of walkway
Noun
  • The Vatican, with its life-sized creche and giant Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square and outdoor exhibit of nativity scenes in the Bernini colonnade ringing it, qualifies as an at-risk target.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Wilmington, North Carolina Wil-Har-Dale, a 1940 Greek Revival mansion, is fronted by a double-height Corinthian colonnade.
    The Week Staff, theweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of colonnade
Noun
  • Or are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?
    Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.
    Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
Definition of alameda
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