allée

noun

Definition of alléenext
as in walkway

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  1. walkway
  2. colonnade
  3. alameda
Noun
  • Keep your floors clean while keeping walkways safe with these tips from a Midwestern cleaning expert.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2024
  • There were as many as 40 people on the walkway at the time.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024
Definition of walkway
Noun
  • When an earthquake hit Japan in 1995, bringing down a church in Takatori, Ban replaced it with a Paper Church, an elegant elliptical colonnade inside a rectangular frame, topped by a tented roof.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 July 2024
  • The Mostafa family from the southern Beirut suburbs share three mattresses amongst themselves amid the mosque’s looming colonnades.
    Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 3 Oct. 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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“Allée.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/all%C3%A9e. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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