[Loch-Ruadh] word for the day: Xanadu

[Jane Sitton]

The Word of the Day for September 24 is: Xanadu * \ZAN-uh-doo\ * (noun) : an
idyllic, exotic, or luxurious place

Example sentence: Aunt Layla joked that if she won the lottery she would
retreat to an island Xanadu, never to return again.

Did you know? "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree."
Thus begins Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1816 poem "Kubla Khan," a fantastic
description of an exotic utopia.  Coleridge's poem fired public imagination
and ultimately brought about the use of "Xanadu" as a generalized term for
an idyllic place.  Although the Xanadu in the poem is fictitious, it was
inspired by a real residence built by Mongolian general and statesman Kublai
Khan (grandson of Genghis Khan) in the city of Shang-tu in the 13th century.