tour d'horizon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tour d'horizon.

Noun

tour d'horizon (plural tours d'horizon)

  1. An extensive tour; figuratively, a wide-ranging or general survey.
    • 2009, Ariel Levy, "Lift and Separate", The New Yorker, 16 Nov 09:
      In her engaging tour d'horizon "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present" [...], Gail Collins quotes Van Gelder's lament [...].
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