By the late 1700s, the Champs-Élysées had become a fashionable avenue; the bosquet plantings on either side had thickened enough to be given formal rectangular glades ('cabinets de verdure').

Importance of Tourists Undaunted, Limited and Bendel executives, though more experienced in placing stores in middle-class malls than on fashionable avenues, are confident, to say the least.

Manhattan's fashionable avenues again topped the charts in rental rates, according to the report.

Upstairs is the cool, contemporary tea salon, with widely spaced banquettes and arched windows looking out on one of the most fashionable avenues in Paris.

You have a lovely room off a fashionable avenue.

By the eighteenth century, that path was a fashionable avenue- Marie Antoinette used to stroll it with her friends all the time.

It covered two square blocks, an Italian Renaissance building of soft gray and yellow limestone on the Grand Concourse, the Bronx's most fashionable avenue.

Martin climbed in and the taxi squealed off down the once fashionable avenue.

A Season of Hardship While shoppers thronged the fashionable avenues, the approach of Christmas meant a new season of hardship for many New Yorkers.

At the back of his premises he owned a used-car lot which faced on a less fashionable avenue, and here he sold second-hand cars, trucks and motorboats.