neutral ground
What New Orleans calls a road median.
Definitions
The grassy or paved strip down the middle of a divided street. Everywhere else in America it's a median; in NOLA it's where you set up your ladder to catch beads during Mardi Gras.
neutral ground In A Sentence
Origin & Usage
After the Louisiana Purchase, Canal Street separated the French Creole quarter from the Anglo-American sector. The grassy strip down the middle was literally the neutral ground between two suspicious populations.
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