All 3 Uses of
promenade
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- This fashionable watering-place, with its eastern and its western stations, its piers, its groves of pines, its promenades, and its covered gardens, was, to Angel Clare, like a fairy place suddenly created by the stroke of a wand, and allowed to get a little dusty.†
Chpt 7
- Each clasping the other round the waist they promenaded over the dry bed of fir-needles, thrown into a vague intoxicating atmosphere at the consciousness of being together at last, with no living soul between them; ignoring that there was a corpse.†
Chpt 7 *
- They soon reached the summit of the hill, and, evidently intending this point to be the limit of their promenade, slackened pace and turned all three aside to the gate whereat Tess had paused an hour before that time to reconnoitre the town before descending into it.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(promenade) a public pathway for leisurely walking -- especially one near the ocean
or:
walking leisurely -- especially in a public place -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, promenade can reference a walking motion while dancing a square dance or procession of all the guests marching at the opening of a formal dance. Even more rarely, it can reference a prom (a formal party held for a school class toward the end of the academic year).