grand tour
noun [C]Definition
› (also Grand Tour) a visit to the most important countries and cities of Europe that rich young people made in the past as part of their educationJourneys › often humorous an occasion when someone shows you round a house or other building: Let me give you a grand tour of the house.Journeys
(Definition of grand tour noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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