baedeker

Speech parts

1. baedeker - Noun

2. Baedeker - Proper noun

Meaning

any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker

German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859)

Source: WordNet

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Examples

In his 1893 guidebook, Karl Baedeker described Baton Rouge as "the Capital of Louisiana, a quaint old place with 10,378 inhabitants, on a bluff above the Mississippi." Source: Internet

"When Lucy Honeychurch finds herself 'In Santa Croce with no Baedeker' in E. M. Forster's A Room with a View, she is entirely lost" (ODNB). Source: Internet

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