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The word carried a set of rich associations: the man of leisure, the idler, the urban explorer, the connoisseur of the street. Drawing on the work of Charles Baudelaire who described the flâneur in his poetry and 1863 essay " The Painter of Modern Life ", Walter Benjamin promoted 20th-century scholarly interest in the flâneur as an emblematic ...
Corner of rue de Turenne in the 3 th district of Paris: the plaque mentions the current street name, while its former name - Street Boucherat - is still visible, carved in stone of the building. It is possible to distinguish several eras where we observe a similar typology of street names on French territory:
A few points of note on street suffixes in mainland Europe: In some languages the "street suffix" precedes the name and is thus a "street prefix" (rue Pasteur) In some languages the street suffix is not a separate word but is included in the same word as the rest of the name (Marktstrasse).
à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".
The word boulevard is borrowed from French. In France, it originally meant the flat surface of a rampart, and later a promenade taking the place of a demolished fortification. It is a borrowing from the Dutch word bolwerk 'bulwark'. [1]
Czech and some other Slavic languages use the term "ulička" (little street) for alley, [145] a diminutive form of "ulice", the word for street. In Montréal, Canada ruelle (diminutive of French rue, a street) is used for a back lane or service alley. There has been an endeavour to green these and some are quite attractive.
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Tree avenue in Normandy, France An avenue at Alexandra Park, London. In landscaping, an avenue (from the French), alameda (from the Portuguese and Spanish), or allée (from the French), is a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its Latin source venire ("to come") indicates, to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a landscape ...