alameda

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The close-massed, square-fronted houses glimmered white and pink and yellow, with narrow gaps between them where a few lights burned; a break, from which dusky foliage rose, marked the alameda.

From The Coast of Adventure by Bindloss, Harold

Along the bank of the Rimac there is a new promenade planted with four rows of trees, called the alameda nueva.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina

It possesses a beautiful alameda, or public walk, through which flows the river Escueva. 

From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

Towards evening, the throng and bustle within the town diminished, and were transferred to the pleasant walks around it, and especially to the shady and flower-bordered avenues of the alameda.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

We went one evening to the alameda, a broad, straight walk, paved with flat stones, shaded by fine trees, under which are stone benches, and bounded by a low stone wall.

From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)