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Tour   /tʊr/   Listen
noun
Tour  n.  A tower. (Obs.)


Tour  n.  
1.
A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England. "The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour."
2.
A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies. (Obs.)
3.
(Mil.) Anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.
Synonyms: Journey; excursion. See Journey.


verb
Tour  v. i.  (past & past part. toured; pres. part. touring)  To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.





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... a hospital in Saxony was skilfully managed; and Lili went on a concert tour for the Red Cross. It was not worth while to campaign in Austria; the moment Germany was helpless she ...
— The White Morning • Gertrude Atherton
... describes his sojourn at Gallipoli: Nous etions si riches, que nous ne semions, ni ne labourions, ni ne faisions enver des vins ni ne cultivions les vignes: et cependant tous les ans nous recucillions tour ce qu'il nous fallait, en vin, froment et avoine. p. 193. This lasted for five merry years. Ramon de Montaner is high authority, for he was "chancelier et maitre rational de l'armee," (commissary of rations.) He was left governor; ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon
... s'imaginer, que ce premier jour n'est pas celui de sa naissance charnelle, mais celui au quel il a commence d'user de la raison; il veut que c'ait ete a l'age de neuf ans; et il nous veut persuader que ce fut en cet age, que Lipse fit un poeme.—Le tour est ingenieux, &c. &c.) the day he was born:—They should have wiped it up, said my uncle Toby, and said ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne
... but at a public school, or else from a private tutor who had been abroad (after the advantage of a classical education, finished in one of the universities) with a good family; without which introduction it was idle to think of reaping solid advantages from any continental tour; all which requisites, from personal knowledge, she could aver to be concentrated in the gentleman she had the honour to recommend, as having been tutor to a young nobleman, who had now no further occasion for him, having, ...
— The Parent's Assistant • Maria Edgeworth
... taking his time over the errand. The shades of evening gathered while the steward was making his usual rounds within the mansion. Molly, whose housewifely instincts ever asserted themselves, had of her own accord made a dusting tour of the rooms and halls. She was on the first landing of the stairway in the east hall, just about to finish her task in the waning light admitted by the window over the landing and by the fanlight over the front door, when, as she applied her cloth to the mahogany ...
— The Continental Dragoon - A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 • Robert Neilson Stephens


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