grand tour

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The Grand Tour was a journey round the main cities of Europe that young men from rich families used to make as part of their education
A lengthy journey which takes in the major sights of a continent Usually used to refer to "The Grand Tour of Europe," on which people of means saw all of the best the continent had to offer
The Grand Tour was an opportunity for a young gentleman to explore the world and make his official entrance into society The tour was a chance for young men to travel to far-away places, learn about culture and art, and refine his tastes and manners It was also a chance to be free of supervision, a fact of which many of the men took advantage For more information, visit an ECE student project on The Grand Tour!
an extended sightseeing tour undertaken for pleasure
extensive and usually educational tour; extensive travel (originally as part of a wealthy young British man's education)
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 the set of all two-dimensional subspaces Desirable properties of such sequences of subspaces are considered, and several specific types of sequences are tested for rapidity of becoming dense Tabulations are provided of the minimum length of a grand tour sequence necessary to achieve various degrees of denseness in dimensions up to 20 [ASI85]
A tour taken by a performer, generally with only a piano, to perform excerpts from various works
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