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Xan⋅a⋅du

  [zan-uh-doo, -dyoo]
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–noun
a place of great beauty, luxury, and contentment.
Origin:
S.T. Coleridge's modification, in the poem “Kubla Khan” (1797), of Xandu (17th century sp.), modern Shangtu, the site of Kublai Khan's summer residence in SE Mongolia
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Xan·a·du   (zān'ə-dōō', -dyōō')   
n.  An idyllic, beautiful place.

[After Xanadu, a place in "Kubla Khan," a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Xanadu 
Mongol city founded by Kublai Khan, 1625, Anglicized form of Shang-tu. Sense of "dream place of magnificence and luxury" derives from Coleridge's poem (1816).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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