English
grand tour
see also: Grand Tour
Noun

grand tour (plural grand tours)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Grand Tour#English|Grand Tour
Grand Tour
Noun

grand tour

  1. (cycling) One of the three most prominent cycling races: either the [[Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España.]]
  2. (historical, 17th-19th centuries) A traditional trip around Europe undertaken by mainly [[upper-class European young men.]] [from 1678]
    • 2011, Tony Perrottet, The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe, Broadway Books (ISBN 9780307592194), page 254
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    • 2012, Rosemary Sweet, Cities and the Grand Tour: The British in Italy, C.1690-1820, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9781107020504), page 236
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