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Grand Canal
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tags: [geography]
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Definition:The major canal that cuts through Venice, Italy, as opposed to many of the minor intersecting canals.
photo 1: By Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61002133
photo 2: by Annie Spratt, CC0, https://unsplash.com/photos/aYo-Xkv9x88
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I reflected that already the Ponte Vecchio was heaped high with an abundance of hyacinths and anemones, and that the spring sunshine was already tinging the waves of the Grand Canal with so dusky an azure,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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