Xanadu

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Proper noun 1.3 Quotations 1.4 See also

English

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

See also

• Wikipedia article on Xanadu
• IMDB entry for Xanadu

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