Definitions
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- noun An idyllic, beautiful place.
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- proper noun The summer capital of Kublai Khan's empire
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Xanadu" is one of my favorite Rush tunes, especially the live version.
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I noticed how much blonde actress Laurette Spang resembled Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu, two full years before that opus.
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One of the latter is a stone post embellished with writhing dragons, a monument from Khubilai Khan's celebrated "stately pleasure dome" in Xanadu:
Lee Rosenbaum: Barbarians Tamed: The Met's Timid "Khubilai Khan" Exhibition Lee Rosenbaum 2010
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One of the latter is a stone post embellished with writhing dragons, a monument from Khubilai Khan's celebrated "stately pleasure dome" in Xanadu:
Lee Rosenbaum: Barbarians Tamed: The Met's Timid "Khubilai Khan" Exhibition Lee Rosenbaum 2010
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One of the latter is a stone post embellished with writhing dragons, a monument from Khubilai Khan's celebrated "stately pleasure dome" in Xanadu:
Lee Rosenbaum: Barbarians Tamed: The Met's Timid "Khubilai Khan" Exhibition Lee Rosenbaum 2010
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I noticed how much blonde actress Laurette Spang resembled Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu, two full years before that opus.
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One of the latter is a stone post embellished with writhing dragons, a monument from Khubilai Khan's celebrated "stately pleasure dome" in Xanadu:
Lee Rosenbaum: Barbarians Tamed: The Met's Timid "Khubilai Khan" Exhibition Lee Rosenbaum 2010
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Ted Nelson's Ur-hypertext project Xanadu is open-source and online.
Boing Boing: January 6, 2002 - January 12, 2002 Archives 2002
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Kubla Khan was his name in Xanadu of course, but in Hong Kong, for the sake of convenience and brevity, he was called Catchik Chater.
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After scoring with his campy stage adaptation of "Xanadu" -- perhaps not coincidentally, another project with Greek roots -- playwright/librettist Douglas Carter Beane has cleverly transformed Aristophanes 'ancient scenario about sexual politics into a contemporary musical comedy with the raunchy-but-sweet flavor of an "American Pie" romp.
Variety.com 2010
sherry28 commented on the word Xanadu
"It had to seemed to her an adolescent Xanadu ." From: All we ever wanted was everything . Author: Janelle Brown. Page 261
October 16, 2010
bilby commented on the word Xanadu
See also xanadu.
October 16, 2010