Definition of "boardwalk" []

• A walk made of wooden planks. (noun)
• A promenade, especially of planks, along a beach or waterfront. (noun)

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• "Note the boardwalk from the 1927 postcard is missing in this later photograph."
• "Its location today is roughly marked by the entrance of the boardwalk from the beach."
• "If the Venice boardwalk is a human circus, as many observers have described it, then the long, keyhole-shaped pier that abuts it is an angling circus, a narrow strip of concrete where the exotic and unpredictable denizens of the Pacific Ocean-needlefish have been reeled up onto the pier; occasionally someone hooks a sea lion-meet the exotic and unpredictable anglers of Los Angeles."