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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”, especially decorative objects from eastern Asia

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Examples

  • 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.

    井の中の蛙 » The Teahouse Fire: Painstaking » Print 2009

  • 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.

    The Teahouse Fire: Painstaking 2009

  • There was a whole period in US History where they determined that orientalia was THE thing.

    MISSING COLEMAN ALERT - HUNTING BUNTING deep_bluze 2004

  • 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

  • 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.

    Orientalist Kitsch | PopPolitics.com 2002

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