Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Things, especially decorative objects, produced in or associated with eastern Asia.
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- noun Things from the “
orient ”, especiallydecorative objects from easternAsia
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Some of this can be explained by the use of Aurelia as narrator, I suppose, but places the book securely in the tradition of orientalia using outsiders as stand-ins for the non-native readers — Shogun, or a lot of other genre fiction.
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Some of this can be explained by the use of Aurelia as narrator, I suppose, but places the book securely in the tradition of orientalia using outsiders as stand-ins for the non-native readers — Shogun, or a lot of other genre fiction.
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There was a whole period in US History where they determined that orientalia was THE thing.
MISSING COLEMAN ALERT - HUNTING BUNTING deep_bluze 2004
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Chinese figurines and 19th-century European orientalia comprising romantic images of dancing girls and harems.
WN.com - Articles related to Thai king's condition "good", recovery needed - palace 2009
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And I was hardly shocked by the “Get Your Buddha on the Floor” or “Wok-n-Bowl, Let the Good Times Roll — Chinese Food and Bowling” t-shirts, only the latest splashes in the tidal wave of kitsch merchandising and “orientalia” that’s been stocking store shelves for years now.
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