esplanade
noun/ˌespləˈneɪd/
/ˈesplənɑːd/, /ˈespləneɪd/
- a level area of open ground in a town for people to walk along, often by the sea or a river
- People were lying on the beach and strolling along the esplanade.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting an area of flat ground on top of a rampart): from French, from Italian spianata, from Latin explanatus ‘flattened, levelled’, from explanare, based on planus ‘plain’.
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