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Xanadu

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Etymology

From Chinese Shangdu

Proper Noun

Xanadu

  1. The summer capital of Kublai Khan 's empire
  2. A 1980 film directed by Robert Greenwald.
  3. A song from the 1977 Rush album A Farewell To Kings.

Quotations

1816:

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Kubla Khan

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