All 6 Uses of
promenade
in
The House of Mirth
- On the Promenade des Anglais, where Ned Silverton hung on him for the half hour before dinner, he received a deeper impression of the general insecurity.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- He plunged across the Promenade, leaving Selden to a meditative cigar.†
Chpt 2.1
- Selden, stumbling on a chance acquaintance, had dined with him, and adjourned, still in his company, to the brightly lit Promenade, where a line of crowded stands commanded the glittering darkness of the waters.†
Chpt 2.1
- Down the lantern-hung Promenade, snatches of band-music floated above the hum of the crowd and the soft tossing of boughs in dusky gardens; and between these gardens and the backs of the stands there flowed a stream of people in whom the vociferous carnival mood seemed tempered by the growing languor of the season.†
Chpt 2.1
- Selden and his companion, unable to get seats on one of the stands facing the bay, had wandered for a while with the throng, and then found a point of vantage on a high garden-parapet above the Promenade.†
Chpt 2.1
- He took another cross street, and without breasting the throng on the Promenade, made his way to the fashionable club which overlooks that thoroughfare.†
Chpt 2.1
Definition:
-
(promenade) a public pathway for leisurely walking -- especially one near the ocean
or:
walking leisurely -- especially in a public place