Wide, tree-lined streets in a city, often with a median or planted area; streets designed for both beauty and traffic.
From French boulevard, from Dutch bolwerk (bulwark, fortification), because these streets often followed the lines of old city walls.
The word 'boulevard' comes from old fortification walls—as cities stopped needing walls, they replaced them with beautiful, wide streets. Destruction became beauty.
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