(n.) A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town.
(n.) The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country.
(n.) A grass plat; a lawn.
(n.) Any clear, level space used for public walks or drives; esp., a terrace by the seaside.
Example Sentences:
(1) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins and bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(2) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins, bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(3) The military tattoo has been staged on the castle esplanade for 66 years and the castle will be the backdrop and launchpad for a vast firework display that traditionally marks the end of the international festival every year.
(4) Heading further east, the esplanade is dotted with churches and forts interspersed with bars and restaurants – Barreirinha is a lively cafe-bar with a terrace.
(5) Nice’s waterfront was all but deserted on Friday, beaches empty, cafes abandoned, the esplanade cordoned off and the white truck used in the attack visible from a distance, its windscreen pockmarked with bullet holes and its front buckled.
(6) He told her: I was at the end of Scarbrough Esplanade, Skegness, which is beside the pier.
(7) The film takes place in a terrain of rocks, woods, esplanades by the lake, pavilions and ornamental bridges.
(8) Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a chauffeur and a petty criminal who lived in the Riviera city , accelerated the heavy goods vehicle through thick crowds for more than a mile along a beachfront esplanade on Thursday night, turning a Bastille Day festival of fireworks and families into carnage before police shot him dead.
(9) Pushchairs thrown over the esplanade and onto the beach; others, lying higgledy-piggledy on their side on the pavement, abandoned by parents desperate to get their children out of harm’s way; and between the smears of dried blood staining the tarmac, the blue blankets covering some of the 84 men, women and children who died.
(10) Classic examples include Morelli's in Broadstairs , Rossi's on the Esplanade in Weymouth , where the ice-cream has been made from scratch on the premises since the 1930s, and Ives on Aldeburgh High Street, where unusual flavours include rhubarb and lemon curd.
(11) However, a small group of Rousseff supporters staged a candlelit vigil in the main esplanade.
(12) This is the foreshore walk, looking away from the Pier in the direction of Tower Esplanade, shortly before 7pm; about 40 minutes before high tide.
(13) What Barack Obama will see, when on Friday he becomes the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima , is a large esplanade lined with trees, with a cenotaph monument to the victims of the A-bomb, with the words: “the error of the past will not be repeated”.
(14) One by one they came – vessels the size of tenement blocks – disgorging holidaymakers on to an esplanade dotted with little white buildings in scenes of exuberant commotion.
(15) The beach is at the end of an elegant esplanade that leads up to tree-lined residential streets and Connaught Avenue, dubbed the Bond Street of East Anglia.
(16) When I visited the town, the esplanade was still festooned with forlorn pink ribbons, put there by locals desperately hoping the five-year-old would be found.
(17) I'm thinking a row of fracking wells along the Southsea esplanade , or at the very least a large offshore wind farm at the neck of Portsmouth harbour.
(18) There is talk, too, of a turf war along the esplanade between rival drug dealers battling to control distribution.
(19) I’ve seen hobos on the Esplanade address bigger crowds,” he wrote.
Glacis
Definition:
(n.) A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).