Baedeker

(də kər)

noun

  1. any of a series of guidebooks to foreign countries, first published in Germany by Karl Baedeker (1801-59)
  2. loosely any guidebook

See Baedeker in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A guidebook to countries or a country.

Origin:

Origin: After the guidebooks published by Karl Baedeker

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, Karl 1801-1859.

German publisher who established a series of guidebooks in 1829.

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