Meaning Grand Tour
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The Grand Tour is the name given to the travels around the principal towns and monuments of Europe made by young men of the British upper class in the 18th century. It was considered an important part [..]
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The grand tour is a method for viewing multivariate statistical data via orthogonal projections onto a sequence of two-dimensional subspaces. The sequence of subspaces is chosen so that it is dense in [..]
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An extensive journey to the Continent, chiefly to France, the Netherlands, and above all Italy, sometimes in the company of a tutor, that became a conventional feature in the education of the English [..]
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(cycling) One of the three most prominent cycling races: either the Tour de France, [[Giro d'Italia]] and [[Vuelta a EspaƱa]]. (historical,17th-19th centuries) A traditional trip around Europe und [..]
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