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Definition of Boulevard
Boulevard

Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.

A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.

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Boulevard Quotations

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
Jay Leno

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
Carol Burnett

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
Gloria Swanson

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.
Gloria Swanson

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.
Al Lewis

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.
Brian Moore

I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
Rachel Ward

Wilshire Boulevard... It has no smell to it.
Jean Renoir

Boulevard Translations

boulevard in Dutch is boulevard, singel
boulevard in French is bd, boulevard
boulevard in Portuguese is bulevar
boulevard in Spanish is bulevar
boulevard in Swedish is boulevard


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