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promenade

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promenade

Public place where people walk (or, in the past, rode) at leisure for pleasure, exercise, or display. Promenades are pedestrian avenues pleasingly landscaped or commanding a view, often located along waterfronts and in parks. Vehicular traffic may or may not be restricted.

promenade
1. a marchlike step in dancing
2. a marching sequence in a square or country dance
promenade
A suitable place for walking for pleasure, as a mall.
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But there was no sign of him on the promenade deck, and none below in the saloon; the smoking-room was empty but for a little German with a red moustache twisted into his eyes; nor was Raffles in his own cabin, whither I inquired my way in desperation, but where the sight of his own name on the baggage was certainly a further reassurance.
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Ten o'clock found me in some fashionable promenade or other place of public amusement.
The Business Man by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
nor since--permission for the boys to come up on the promenade deck.
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