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Word History
French, modification of Middle Dutch bolwerc bulwark
1763, in the meaning defined above
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulevard. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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boulevard
nounfrom 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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