tour d'horizon

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tour d'horizon

  • /ˈtʊə(ɹ)ˌdɒɹɪˈzɒn/

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Borrowed from French tour d'horizon.

noun tours d'horizon

  1. An extensive tour; figuratively, a wide-ranging or general survey. The observation plane made two lazy circles in the darkening sky and then, not wanting to be caught up there with full night coming, it broke off the second tour d'horizon and headed home, south and east.

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@misc{tour_d_horizon_2026,
  title = {tour d'horizon},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tour%20d'horizon},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}