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esplanade

[es-pluh-nahd, -neyd, es-pluh-nahd, -neyd] / ˈɛs pləˌnɑd, -ˌneɪd, ˌɛs pləˈnɑd, -ˈneɪd /
NOUN
promenade
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Whenever I return to Batumi, which I’ve done five times, I always do three things: I stroll along the palm-fringed seaside esplanade, admiring the gardens first landscaped in 1881.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 30, 2025

Amanda Kay, who was staying in the hotel on the main esplanade in Cairns, described seeing a helicopter flying "extra low", without lights in rainy weather.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2024

The esplanade will be refurbished; visitors will no longer have to line up for tickets outside; and the permanent collections will be rearranged and rehung.

From New York Times Oct. 3, 2023

The Free Land Camp is a five-day event featuring music, dance and food in tents erected on the grass esplanade of the capital.

From Reuters Apr. 28, 2023

But fate decided that my parents and I and the three wise men, as I shall call them, should meet one day on the Goubert Salai seaside esplanade and that my secret should be outed.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

For one hour either side of high water, very minor impact flooding is expected to affect some seafront roads, esplanades and car parks across the island.

From BBC Apr. 9, 2024

Throughout the late-19th and early-20th centuries, Universal Expositions on this site produced extraordinary, short-lived cities consisting of pavilions, palaces, houses, monuments, fountains, bridges, paths, and grand esplanades.

From New York Times Oct. 17, 2023

On a recent day, numerous motorcycle taxis were parked on one of the esplanades outside the basilica.

From Seattle Times Dec. 10, 2022

Construction has already begun on a $20 billion project to build raised parks, esplanades and barriers along Lower Manhattan.

From Washington Post Sep. 18, 2022

Additional space was given by the wide esplanades in front of the doors, and by the flat roofs, upon which sleep was often more successfully wooed than in the rooms below.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir




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