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promenader en · NOUN

Etymology

From promenade + -er.

Meanings

1. (agent, form-of) Agent noun of promenade; one who promenades.
   form of promenade
   • When Bournemouth began laying track, it splashed onto the scene in style, launching two in 1908 with the East Cliff and West Cliff Lifts. Both connected promenaders with the beach, at extreme ends of the town. 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 54:
   • There were one or two cartloads of refugees passing along Oxford Street, and several in the Marylebone Road, but so slowly was the news spreading that Regent Street and Portland Road were full of their usual Sunday-night promenaders, albeit they talked in groups[.] 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 130:
   • […] Claggart's unobserved glance happened to light on belted Billy rolling along the upper gun deck in the leisure of the second dog-watch, exchanging passing broadsides of fun with other young promenaders in the crowd […] 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 15, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
2. (UK) An attender at, or devotee of, promenade concerts.

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