alameda

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Gleaming white houses rose one above another among feathery palms, with a broad streak of darker green in their midst to mark the shady alameda.

From Brandon of the Engineers by Bindloss, Harold

Each town has its shady alameda, its plaza, and a court for playing pelota, a kind of tennis, the game of the province.

From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle

A favorite dance, known here as the zama cueca, is often witnessed out-of-doors in retired corners of the plaza or the alameda, as well as elsewhere.

From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray

We went one evening to the alameda, a broad, straight walk, paved with flat stones, shaded by fine trees, under which are stone benches, and bounded by a low stone wall.

From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)

Here you while away the time until it is cool enough for the alameda or public walk.

From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Begbie, Harold