Baedeker
(bā′də kər)
noun
- any of a series of guidebooks to foreign countries, first published in Germany by Karl Baedeker (1801-59)
- 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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