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/ˈbeɪdəkɝ/
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NOUN
- any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker
How To Use baedeker In A Sentence
- The best Baedeker could say about the station hotel was that it was clean. LORD OF THE SILENT
- He had studied his Baedeker as club women study the cyclopedia. Our Mr. Wrenn
- Miss Isabel patted her Baedeker as if the question itself were an offence. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
- Baedeker, or other guide-book, with its maps of any historic dwelling and its surroundings, from Chantilly or Fontainebleau to minor ones, to see that this plan, originally devised for the pleasure, success and safety [Page: 137] of the hunt, and later adapted to domination and defence, became next appreciated as affording the finest possible perspectives of the palatially rebuilt chateau. Civics: as Applied Sociology
- It was a leisurely and kindly place -- "homelike," it was called -- and when the visitor had been taken through the State Asylum for the Insane and made to appreciate the view of the cemetery from a little hill, his host's duty as Baedeker was done. The Turmoil
- The best Baedeker could say about the station hotel was that it was clean. LORD OF THE SILENT
- Baedekers, who are doing Rome and at the same time _doing_ the Pope's The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
- Can I borrow your Baedeker for France?
- In 1910, the German publisher Baedeker brought out a new edition of its Handbook to Great Britain.
- Miss Isabel patted her Baedeker as if the question itself were an offence. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE