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Definition of Grand canal
1. Noun. The major waterway in Venice, Italy.
2. Noun. An inland waterway 1000 miles long in eastern China; extends from Tianjin in the north to Hangzhou in the south.
Group relationships: Cathay, China, Communist China, Mainland China, People's Republic Of China, Prc, Red China
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grand Canal
Literary usage of Grand canal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trade and Administration of the Chinese Empire by Hosea Ballou Morse, Francis Lister Hawks Pott, A. T. Piry (1908)
"The foreign goods going from Hankow under transit pass in 1905 into Shensi were
valued at Tls.825,54o, and into Kansu at Tls.26319. 9. The grand canal ..."
2. Lives of the Engineers by Samuel Smiles (1874)
"THE Canal du Midi, more commonly known as the grand canal of Languedoc, was one
of the most important works of the kind at the time at which it was executed ..."
3. Italy: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1895)
"Giustiniani, on the grand canal, opposite the Dogana del Mare and near the Piazza
of St. Mark, R., L., tí A. from 5, B. 2 fr. ; 'HOTEL ROYAL DANIELI (PI. a; ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1883)
"Ox THE GASEOUS CONSTITUENTS OP THE VARTRY AND grand canal ... of the gaseous
constituents in the Vartry and grand canal waters which are supplied to Dublin, ..."
5. The Story of Venice by Thomas Okey (1905)
"SECTION V The grand canal and S. Giorgio Maggiore SECOND only in architectural
interest to St Mark's and the Ducal Palace are the patrician mansions that ..."
6. Venice by Grant Allen (1908)
"VIII THE grand canal [~'~T~*HE grand canal, (or Canalazzo) the street of the [_
_L nobles, is originally one of the many navigable channels by whose aid the ..."
7. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Years by Laurence Oliphant (1859)
"THE IMPERIAL grand canal ARRIVAL AT BOO-CHOW ENTRY OF THE CITY — CURIOSITY OF THE
... We had entered the Imperial grand canal during the night, ..."
8. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1801)
"Great Ceremony at the annual open!fig of iite grand canal of Cairo.—Liberality
of Buonaparte to the ..."
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