a level area of open ground in a town for people to walk along, often by the sea or a river (常指城鎮中海濱、河畔供人散步的)廣場,空地 People were lying on the beach and strolling along the esplanade. 人們躺在沙灘上,沿着廣場散步。
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting an area of flat ground on top of a rampart): from French, from Italian spianata, from Latin explanatus ‘flattened, levelled’, from explanare, based on planus ‘plain’.