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  • noun any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

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  • Jean Cazals for The Wall Street Journal And at La Bauhinia, pastry chef François Perret offers traditional treats such as scones and finger sandwiches, as well as seasonal collections of cupcakes, which for the winter include caramel and black sesame, and chocolate and yuzu www.shangri-la.com .

    Standing on Ceremony 2011

  • Shangri-La's Boracay Resort & Spa, Philippines; Web: www. shangri-la.com

    Asia's Top Spas Nellie S. Huang 2010

  • La Bauhinia at the Shangri-La Hotel, 10 Avenue d'Iéna, 16th arrondissement; 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily; from €35 per person; +33 01 5367 1991; www.shangri-la.com .

    The Most Agreeable Hour 2011

  • Traders Hotel (223 Sule Pagoda Rd.; 95-1-242-828; www. shangri-la.com), starting at about $90, is in a charmless high-risee — but good value and location.

    Myanmar's Colonial Treasures Threatened 2010

  • Also covered are the stern classics like Monticello's tea room and the ebullient odes to prettiness, like Frances and Rodney Smith's New Orleans shangri-la by decorator Nicky Haslam.

    Decorating's Titans of Style Duke It Out Sara Ruffin Costello 2010

  • And at the end of it, I want a door to open up in my living room, and a beautiful elf girl comes out of it and asks me to be her best friend, and then we fly away to shangri-la and eat strawberries there, and have lots of sexy-time.

    Cast and crew 2009

  • I'm talking about a normal-person type rental, not some $650 a week tourist shangri-la.

    Health insurance, Internet, Rental Housing 2005

  • I'm talking about a normal-person type rental, not some $650 a week tourist shangri-la.

    Health insurance, Internet, Rental Housing 2005

  • Njuguna is based in the capital city of Mbabane, a shangri-la surrounded by mountains and valleys covered in a green carpet of vegetation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • By describing my little shangri-la I'd hoped to stimulate some interest & some replies from a few interesting like-minded folks.

    The Village Gringa ~ About to take the Plunge! 1919

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  • An extension and adaptation of the Fountain of Youth-narratives is the idea that a particular place, rather than a substance, carries what is needed to attain extreme age. It is not enough to take a potion from a bottle in Merry Olde England; a person seeking extreme longevity instead needs to move to "Shangri-La." (Wikipedia)

    May 22, 2008