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[Philip Hart]

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boulevard
     1769, from Fr. boulevard (15c.), originally "top surface of a military 
rampart," from a garbled attempt to adopt M.Du. bolwerc "wall of a 
fortification" (see bulwark) into French, which lacks a -w-. The original 
notion is of a promenade laid out atop demolished city walls, which would 
be much wider than urban streets. Originally in English with conscious 
echoes of Paris; since 1929, in U.S., used of multi-lane limited-access 
urban highways. Early French attempts to digest the Dutch word also 
include boloart, boulever, boloirque, bollvercq.