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单词 cooks tour
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Cook's tourn.

Brit. /ˌkʊks ˈtʊə/, /ˌkʊks ˈtɔː/, U.S. /ˌkʊks ˈtʊ(ə)r/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Cook , tour n.
Etymology: < the genitive of the name of Thomas Cook (1808–92), travel agent + tour n. Compare Cook's tourist n.Thomas Cook, a Leicester businessman and staunch temperance advocate, organized his first excursion (by rail from Leicester to Loughborough) for some 500 temperance supporters in 1841, and his first profit-making excursion (to Liverpool, Caernarfon, and Mount Snowdon) in 1845. In the following years thousands of holidaymakers enjoyed guided tours of the cities, resorts, and beauty spots of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and by the 1860s Cook was offering regular excursions to the continent (France, Switzerland, and (newly united) Italy were early favourites) and even farther afield (the United States in 1866, the Holy Land in 1869). The ‘Cook's tour’ quickly became a byword for well-organized wide-ranging tourist travel. In 1872–3 Cook personally conducted the first round-the-world tour. In sense 4 with punning allusion to cook n.1
1. A tour for holidaymakers organized by Thomas Cook or his travel agency. Frequently in similative or allusive use. Now chiefly historical.
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society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > holidays > specific type
summer vacation1507
public holiday1736
summer holiday1746
school holiday1777
Cook's tour1856
alcoholiday1877
busman's holiday1893
caravan holiday1899
caravanning holiday1924
staycation1944
spring break1956
farm stay1957
charter1959
ski pack1969
staycation2008
1856 Notts. Guardian 17 July Cook's tours in Scotland, and cheap trips to the English Lakes. Next Tuesday..a special train will leave Nottingham..for Edinburgh, Glasgow, Carlisle, Penrith, and Kendal.
1878 Punch 14 Dec. 267/1 The first night's debate in the Lords was like a Cook's tour—‘personally conducted’.
1895 M. K. Dallas Billtry iv. 58 ‘I'll go on a Cook's tour—one starts to-day.’ ‘And be waked up at three in the morning to see churches?’
1901 Victoria (Brit. Columbia) Daily Colonist 11 July 2/5 The Kaiser was anticipated, and his pilgrimage, deprived of this intended coup de theatre, was reduced to the level of a mere Cook's tour.
1959 Newsweek 6 Apr. 117/1 At first glance,..[the] American soprano's schedule for the next few months looked like a prospectus for a Cook's tour.
2016 K. Hill Brit. & Narration of Trav. in 19th Cent. ix. 180 Travellers on Cook's tours to Egypt [in the late 1880s] rubbed shoulders with military men and collectors from the British Museum.
2.
a. A tour, esp. a rapid, wide-ranging tour of many places.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > tour > types of
the tour1642
grand tour1678
circular tour1860
swing1860
tourette1881
voyage of discovery1890
roundabout1894
Cook's tour1902
conducted1907
conducted tour1907
book tour1939
tour d'horizon1952
1902 Jrnl. Soc. Psychical Res. June 256 Mr. Stevenson asks whether I know anybody who can fly to Mars or to the moons of Jupiter, or in fact take a Cook's tour of the Universe.
1910 Logansport (Indiana) Daily Reporter 5 Dec. 6/3 Military board makes quick ‘Cook's tour’ of vast works and reports to Taft... They have had little more than time to take a sort of Cook's tour to each of the twenty-six projects.
1945 N.Y. Herald Tribune 29 Apr. iv. 3/1 Forty-eight hours elapse. During this time they make a veritable Cook's tour of Manhattan, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the marriage license bureau in City Hall.
1987 Daily Tel. 31 Aug. 19/3 The original 34 entries [in the yacht race] have rounded marks off Jutland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, quite a Cook's tour, before more or less retracing their course.
2010 W. W. Rogal Guadalcanal, Tarawa & Beyond x. 418 While aboard we took a sort of ‘Cook's Tour’ of the South Pacific, stopping, but not disembarking, at Makin Island.., at Majuro, and at Kwajalein.
b. Military slang. In the First World War (1914–18): a visit to or tour of the front lines, esp. one made by an officer or non-commissioned officer inspecting a position to which their unit is due to be stationed. Now historical.
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1915 Daily Tel. 26 Jan. 9/7 This system of conveying war correspondents round a certain front on a kind of glorified Cook's tour, as it has come to be known, is a sad come-down from the old days, when we were allowed to wander along the front during the progress of a battle.
1916 C. A. Wells Let. 6 May in From Montreal to Vimy Ridge & Beyond (1917) 146 The other Sergeant..is at present in France on a ‘Cook's Tour’ of the trenches. Officers taking the general three months' course are sent to French for about three weeks, [and] are attached to a battalion at the front.
1942 Flying July 103/3 [With reference to the First World War.] Some of us making a ‘Cook's Tour’ of the front were naturally quite curious.
2010 J. Lewis-Stempel Six Weeks iv. 110 The day before going in to the trench company commanders would take a ‘Cook's Tour’, a short visit to the trench to get the lie of the land and the ‘gen’ from the battalion they were to relieve.
3. A brief but wide-ranging survey, review, or summary of a subject.
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1918 Eng. Jrnl. 7 288 It is a fact course, a Cook's tour through literature; withal, it is a most excellent examination course.
1974 Times 3 June 20/5 As a Cook's tour of the subject to absorb a reader for an evening, Dr Jervis's book could hardly be bettered.
1982 R. F. Kiernan Gore Vidal 86 Like other novels in Vidal's American trilogy, 1876 is meticulously historical, and something of a Cook's Tour, replete with allusions.
2013 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 100 859/1 The terrific quotes she has unearthed occasionally overwhelm her analysis, and she takes the reader on a Cook's tour of the world's opinion about Johnson.
4. With punning allusion to cook n.1: a tour or survey of cookery, cuisine, etc.
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1932 Binghamton (N.Y.) Press 15 Apr. 24/5 For Binghamton cooks who would like to do a little travelling by way of Your Table, here is a cook's tour all mapped out including in its itinerary Spanish meatballs, liver dumplings from Hungary, a Swedish omelet.., and a delicate pudding from India.
1954 Philadelphia Inquirer 14 May 28/4 A veritable ‘Cook's Tour’ of over 30 foreign lands from which the distinctive foods of the world converge into one shop for the convenience of customers.
1994 J. Ballantyne Joy of Gardening Cookbook (rev. ed.) 149 On the next page you'll find a ‘Cook's Tour’ of various greens.
2001 A. Bourdain (title) A cook's tour: in search of the perfect meal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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