What is "esplanades"

Usage examples of "esplanades".

Close by, on riverwalks and esplanades, on skyways crisscrossing above the well-lighted waters, hundreds more walked in pairs and small groups.

They all had the high-g, low-profile look of these short, stocky, prominently muscled joggers who chugged by on the riverwalks and esplanades like some primitive but powerful steam machines.

In all directions the esplanades stretched away into the haze of infinity to accommodate them, along with the lesser attractions and also places of refreshment hidden behind inconspicuous white firmament walls.

Others featured the remains of exquisitely designed porticos, or open galleries with fluted pillars partially fallen down, or crumbling esplanades railed off by richly carved balustrades.

Built along a thirty-meter-wide shelf, it sometimes passed behind the pillars of elegant esplanades, sometimes dived behind outcrops of rock, sometimes overhung the sea.

They emerged into a descending arrangement of interlocking geometric forms, terraces, and esplanades that formed one side of a large circular layout echoing the same theme.

Located on the Right Bank of the Seine, removed from the grand boulevards and extravagant esplanades of the postcard image of Paris, even the light is different.