Baedeker
Definitions
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- noun Any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker.
Examples
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The so-called 'Baedeker raids' â attempts to sap morale, and planned using a tourist guidebook â took aim at cities of historical value: York, Norwich, Canterbury though not Oxford, that's another story and Bath.
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A copy of 'Baedeker' in hand, I have gone through a gallery of statues but did not find a sinner in the entire company.
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Mrs. Faulkner, however, had no intention of letting me go, and I had to be a kind of Baedeker for over half-an-hour.
Note
These guides were named for Karl Baedeker, a 19th-century German publisher of worldwide travel guides.
