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Alameda
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Al·a·me·da  (l-md)
A city of west-central California mainly on two islands in San Francisco Bay near Oakland. It is a shipbuilding center and port of entry. Population: 70,700.
al·a·me·da  (l-md, -m-)
n. Southwestern U.S.
A tree-shaded promenade or public park. See Regional Note at ramada.
[Spanish, from álamo, poplar, alamo.]
alameda [ˌæləˈmeɪdə]
n
Chiefly southwestern US a public walk or promenade lined with trees, often poplars
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Rather than a 10-acre park punctuated with trails and benches, the city's residents would have been better served, he said, with "properly scaled urban public spaces with plazas, alamedas, and boulevards.
ANOTHER FINE MYTH by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
The cutting edge as far as what we're doing is 29[degrees] beer," says Jimmy Cleland of Los Alamedas, CA-based Cleland Sales and Blizzard Beer Systems.
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This is strange, for downtown Lima is arguably South America's most exquisite Spanish colonial capital, with its sprawling royal palace, broad plazas and alamedas (parks), massive cathedral and convents, and handsome colonial mansions with barred windows and carved oak balconies.
Letter from South America. (Our Special Correspondent) by Wawro, Geoffrey / Naval War College Review
 
 
 
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