AVENUE, in Fortification, an Opening or Inlet into a Fort, Bastion, or the like Place. See FORT, BASTION, FORTIFICATION, etc. The Word is form’d of the French Avenir, or Advenir, to come to, to arrive at. See ADVENT.
AVENUE, in Gardening, is a Walk, planted on each side with Trees, and leading to some Place. See VISTA. See also GROVE, GLADE. All Avenues, Mortimer says, should lead to the Front of a House, Garden-Gate, Highway-Gate, or Wood, and terminate in a Prospect.—In an Avenue to a House, whatever the Length of the Walk is, it ought to be as wide as the whole Breadth of the Front, and if wider, better.
