grand tour

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Definition of grand tour

1 : an extended tour of the Continent that was formerly a usual part of the education of young British gentlemen

2 : an extensive and usually educational tour

Examples of grand tour in a Sentence

They offered to give us a grand tour of their new house.

Recent Examples on the Web This week brings the third installment in our grand tour of tortillerías in San Antonio with a focus on downtown and the South Side. — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2021 After serving as Givenchy’s design director, Chiapponi was on a grand tour of Italian fashion’s biggest names, holding top jobs at Gucci, Valentino, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta before Della Valle came calling. — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2021 Michel de Montaigne, arriving there on his grand tour in 1580, described Ippolito’s water organ with its toothed barrel arranging the melody. — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021 After the grand tour, the spacecraft just kept going. — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2020 For the emperor’s third visit in 128, Hadrian was accompanied on his grand tour by his lover, Antinous, then in his late teens, and renowned for his beauty. — History Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020 Voyagers go into the great beyond Never before had a spacecraft visited four worlds in a single, grand tour as the two Voyager probes did in the 1970s and 1980s with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2019 Netflix made Spacey its unofficial spokesman, taking him on a prelaunch grand tour to declare that streaming was the future of television. — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019 At Songbyrd, this slow-starting but ever-building epic ended the main set with a grand tour of Kim’s guitar technique. — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019

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