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boulevard
(ˈbuːl(ə)vɑːd, ‖ bulvar)
rarely -vart.
[a. F. boulevard, older -vart, -ver; app. corrupted from a Teut. word = Ger. bollwerk bulwark; cf. Sp. baluarte, It. baluardo bulwark.]
a. A broad street, promenade, or walk, planted with rows of trees. Chiefly applied to streets of this kind in Paris, or to others which it is intended to compare to them. Now freq. (esp. in U.S.), a wide or well laid-out street or avenue.
(The French word originally meant the horizontal portion of a rampart; hence the promenade laid out on a demolished fortification.)
1769H. Walpole Let. 30 Aug. (1857) V. 183 She and I went to the Boulevard last night after supper. 1772Weekly Mag. 21 May 233/2 We made the circuit of the city on the boulevards. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 65 The Boulevarde, goes round the capital, and was originally its boundary. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. III. xii. 288 I'm fond of its Boulevarts busy. 1875Scribner's Monthly Sept. 541/2 The boulevard which started from Lincoln Park, connects the Central and Douglas Parks, and then continuing [etc.]. 1881Morley Cobden II. 128 The massacre of unarmed citizens on the boulevards. 1903A. B. Hart Actual Govt. 328 Hence have grown up systems of boulevards, broad, winding, and well-surfaced, reaching from park to park and often from city to city. 1938J. Cary Castle Corner 65 A head and face that might have belonged to any senior military club or Cheltenham boulevard. 1958A. Sillitoe Sat. Night & Sun. Morning xi. 153 They took a long walk back to her house, by the boulevard that bordered the estate.
b. attrib. and Comb. boulevard theatre: see quot. 1961; so boulevard farce, etc.
1838Times 24 Feb. 5/2 The scribblers of the French Boulevard-theatres are its real masters. 1918W. Hutchinson Doctor in War (1919) xviii. 260 The superb, boulevard-wide..military roads of the Italian engineers. 1928T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 613 I'm always reading the Frenchmen I like: none of them boulevard idols. 1929Observer 17 Nov. 11/3 The piece is not only amusing. It deserves to be judged by a higher standard than the mere boulevard farce. 1941Koestler Scum of Earth 48 The boulevard press..tried to prove that France was fighting a war for democracy. 1961Times 17 Jan. 4/1 The expression ‘boulevard theatre’, which up to a few years ago was in current use to describe that part of French theatrical production whose principal aim was to amuse..becomes nowadays less and less useful.
c. N. Amer. A dual carriageway; an arterial road, main highway, or freeway.
1929[see three-lane s.v. three B. III 1]. 1933M. McKernan in Life in U.S. 210 The tourist booming along the Kansas–Colorado boulevard sees only a stretch of monotony that burns his eyeballs. 1936Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 4) 546 Boulevard, in some American cities, has of late taken on the meaning of a highway for through traffic, on entering which all vehicles must first halt. In England such a highway is commonly called an arterial road. 1976L. Dills CB Slanguage Dict. (rev. ed.) 19 Boulevard, expressway (SE). 1979Washington Post 22 Feb. c1/6 Alex Haley swings out of a parking lot onto a busy Los Angeles boulevard, his bronze and green 250 SL Mercedes nosing along.
Hence (in newspapers) bouleˈvardian a., bouleˈvardish, ˈboulevardy a., ˈboulevardize v.
1864Sat. Rev. XVIII. 27/2 The boulevardizing of Paris has..caused great misery to the poor. |
