Boulevardize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To convert into boulevards. transitive

    "This rage for boulevardizing has destroyed the quaint, queer, pestilential streets of old Paris, through which it was our pleasure to wander many years since."

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"This rage for boulevardizing has destroyed the quaint, queer, pestilential streets of old Paris, through which it was our pleasure to wander many years since."

Etymology

From boulevard + -ize.

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