grand tour in English

noun
1
a cultural tour of Europe formerly undertaken, especially in the 18th century, by a young man of the upper classes as a part of his education.
He made the grand tour of Europe in 1853 and came home to Cincinnati to paint romantic Italianate landscapes.

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1. Grand Tour of Scotland By train

2. Come on, Miss, the grand tour.

3. Dad and I got the grand tour.

4. The grand tour involves two different routes.

5. The Bolshiest celeb on the grand tour

6. Edouard, at Isobel's suggestion, took her on a grand tour.

7. Every traveller on the Grand Tour had to visit Florence.

8. Let me give you a grand tour of the house.

9. They took us on a grand tour of their new house.

10. Roger: Hi Dave. Did you get the grand tour this morning?

11. The Grand Tour Charabancs pass Tal-y-llyn Lake, before 1908

12. Come on, I'll give you the grand tour of the backyard.

13. Steve took us on a grand tour of the house and gardens.

14. He took his degree in 1665 before embarking on the grand tour .

15. The grand tour itinerary took the family , via Munich and Frankfurt, to Brussels.

16. The rich also visited Madeira in their private yachts as part of a grand tour.

17. Late in the 2008 season, Weylandt took part in the Vuelta a España, his first grand tour.

18. What am I doing swanning around Europe as if I am some young Edwardian doing the Grand Tour?

19. Ben Bova’s Grand Tour series – which deals with the Colonization of the Solar System – also includes a novel titled Mars (1992)

20. The Arents Grand Tour Collection consists of dozens of photograph albums of cities and sites of interest in countries around the world

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22. The Cyclist: Tactics is a turn-based pro-cycling tactics and strategy game in which you lead a small team of riders from humble beginnings to topping the podium of a grand tour

23. A journalist visiting a working archaeological site usually can count on a grand tour of the "dig", a tortured plot of ground covered with grid markers, tools and heaps of dirt waiting to be screened.

24. The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, introduced a unique writer to the world.In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, The Benefactor leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'rea