Show Esplanade and Boulevard Both esplanade and boulewtJ are military terms by origin Ill original boulevard was a bulwark a horizontal part of the rampart suds esplanado was originally the ctack I or slopo of the counters carp of 11 lit tiDed place A writer 200 years V noted that tho word boulevard lit now chiefly taken for tho void ap1 between tho glacis of a citadel III L the first houses of a town Hess Its extension to other void space suitable for promenading The oU French esplanade was deflnei i Cotgravo as a planing leveling eyeing eye-Ing of ways from Latin explain1 to smooth or flatten out whence hI English words explain and Up1 nation |