different between boulevardier vs boulevard

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French boulevardier, from boulevard +? -ier.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

boulevardier (plural boulevardiers)

1. A man who frequents the boulevards; thus, a man about town or bon vivant.
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 20:

     Sitting alone at his window-seat, he was like an old boulevardier fallen on hard times, waspish, inward, slothful.

Synonyms

• man about town
• flaneur

Translations

Coordinate terms

• mall rat

See also

• bon vivant
• dandy

Verb

boulevardier (third-person singular simple present boulevardiers, present participle boulevardiering, simple past and past participle boulevardiered)

1. (intransitive) To strut or show off like a boulevardier.
   • 1914, Robert Page Lincoln, "Wood Hollow Days", Chapter VI, Forest and Stream (83) (Dec 5, 1914) p. 739

     One spectacular being clothed liked a boulevardiering cavalier and having the mein of a finished chesterfieldian gentleman was noted seated in an oak near the cabin one day. ... It was a northern butcher-bird, the aggressive shrike ....

   • 1999, Bruce Dundore, "The Eagle Has Landed", Advertising Age (May 1, 1999) [2]

     It's safe to say that the baby boom generation is the most self-obsessed group of people ever to have boulevardiered the planet.

   • 2010, Chris Moss, 1000 Great Holiday Ideas (Time Out Books) p. 110

     For that quick romantic getaway, a weekend in the city of love, especially in spring or autumn, still delivers in terms of candlelit bistros, afternoons in cafés and boulevardiering in the Marais.

French

Adjective

boulevardier (feminine singular boulevardière, masculine plural boulevardiers, feminine plural boulevardières)

1. boulevardier (attributive)

Noun

boulevardier m (plural boulevardiers, feminine boulevardière)

1. boulevardier

Further reading

• “boulevardier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bu?.l??v??d/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?b?l?v??d/

Noun

boulevard (plural boulevards)

1. A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.
2. The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.

Derived terms

• (abbreviation): blvd., blvd, bd., bd, bl

Related terms

• boulevardier
• bulwark (doublet)

Translations

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French boulevard, borrowed from Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). Doublet of bolværk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b?ul?????d?]

Noun

boulevard

1. boulevard

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French boulevard, from Middle French bolevard, from Middle Dutch bolwerc (modern Dutch bolwerk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bu.l??va?r/
• Hyphenation: bou?le?vard

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards, diminutive boulevardje n)

1. boulevard

Derived terms

• meubelboulevard
• woonboulevard

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: bulevar

French

Etymology

From Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“promenade, avenue, rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bul.va?/

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards)

1. causeway
2. boulevard

Derived terms

• (abbreviation): (Europe): bd, Bd, bld, brd, bvd; (Québec): boul., boul

Descendants

• ? Spanish: bulevar
• ? Turkish: bulvar

Further reading

• “boulevard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

References

Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French bollevart (“promenade, avenue, rampart”), from German Bollwerk or Middle Dutch.

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards)

1. (Jersey) bulwark

Spanish

Etymology

From French boulevard. Doublet of baluarte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bule?ba?d/, [bu.le???a?ð?]

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards)

1. boulevard