boulevard

What it means

1. A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.

   We live on Sunset Boulevard.

2. The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.
3. A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.

In a sentence

We live on Sunset Boulevard.

Where it comes from

1. Middle Dutchbolwerk“bulwark, bastion”
2. Middle High Germanbolewerc
3. Middle Frenchboulevard
4. Frenchboulevard
5. Englishboulevard

Borrowed from French boulevard, from Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). Doublet of bulwark; more at bole, work.