parkway

plural parkways

1. datedA path, carriage-way, or road through a park or a landscaped right of way.

   This street, transferred to the West Side park system in 1879, was extended and changed into a parkway passing through that pretty and well-improved urban space, Union Park

   1891, Clarence Pullen, “The Parks and Parkways of Chicago”, in John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, editors, Harper's Weekly, volume 35, page 418

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   Where the boundary roads are the only roads, the whole strip is properly called a parkway; and this name is retained even when the space between the boundary roads is reduced to lowest terms and becomes nothing more than a shaded green ribbon, devoted perhaps to the separate use of the otherwise dangerous electric cars. In other words, parkways, like parks, may be absolutely formal or strikingly picturesque, according to circumstances.

   1895, Engineering Magazine, volume 9, page 256

   This would give eight trees at each street intersection, which would finally grow into groups, over-arching and emphasizing these intersections, the blocks between these groups to be planted with smaller and more ornamental trees and forming, as it were, a section of a parkway.

   1896, F. H. Nutter, “The Landscape Gardener in the Country”, in The Minnesota Horticulturalist, volume 24, number 9, page 358

   In the case of offensive advertising in the neighborhood of a parkway, it is evident that such advertising is displayed to attract the attention of the people that frequent a public pleasure-ground.

   1897, “The Advertising Nuisance [Editorial Article]”, in Charles Sprague Sargent, editor, Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, page 409

   As this scheme cannot be carried out without further legislation, application will have to be made to the General Court for authority to construct a way which will serve the purposes of a parkway and for ordinary travel.

   1897, “Annual Report of the Park Department for the Year 1896”, in Documents, Boston (Mass.)

   A parkway, so far as it can be discriminated from a boulevard, includes more breadth of turf or planted ground and includes, usually, narrow passages of natural scenery of varying width, giving it a somewhat park-like character

   1919, Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, page 1806

2. USA scenic freeway.
3. USA divided highway with a landscaped median.

   As they cruised, she remembered the old saw: Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?

4. ChicagoA tree lawn.

plural parkways

1. AustraliaUKrail transportA railway station built on the edge of a town, typically with a large car park to function as a park and ride interchange.

1. A place name:
   1. A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
   2. A neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, named after two roads with Parkway in their name.
   3. A village in Franklin County, Missouri, United States.
   4. A suburb of Wainuiomata, Wellington region, New Zealand, presumably named after a road in the area.
   5. A hamlet in Ledbury parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO7135).
   6. A northern suburb (housing estate) in Haverhill, West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL6646).