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Marco Polo

[ mahr-koh poh-loh ]

Marco Polo

/ ˈmɑːkəʊ ˈpəʊləʊ /

noun

  1. See Polo
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Polo, Marco

  1. An Italian explorer of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries; one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia . He visited the court of Kublai Khan ( see Kubla Khan under “Literature in English” ), the Mongol ruler of China , and became a government official in China. His account of his travels was distributed after his return to Italy .


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There are already tools that offer this sort of functionality on the market, of course — like WhatsApp, with its support for audio messages, or video messenger Marco Polo.

I laid down on the floor and watched the Marco Polo diary with the contemporary footage and I felt like I took a trip.

Yules edition of Marco Polo has also been a very inspiring source of material.

Marco Polo speaks of a stone fibre found at Chinchin, which answers in description to asbestos.

Marco Polo, in the thirteenth century, frequently speaks of velvet as an Asiatic fabric.

"Thy tales are more piquant than the tales of Marco Polo," his friend said rallying him.

Froissart and Marco Polo should be included; the fable-making travelers perform a very useful function.

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