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- noun Plural form of
oriental .
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Examples
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The orientals are a little more tricky I think, but Stargazer was fantastic last year when little else did well.
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-- Delicious chocolate creams known as orientals can be made by the amateur if a little care is exercised.
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Oh, and calling people "orientals" really reveals far more about you than you realize, ricpic.
Is it unacceptable for a white comic actor to impersonate Obama on SNL? Ann Althouse 2008
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I share your enthusiasm for 'orientals'...they are intensely comforting to me, and echo my own nature.
Oriental Dreams Marina Geigert 2007
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My blog community is diverse - ranging from folks from my church, friends, curious inquirers from the larger blogosphere, other pastors and leaders, Christians, skeptics, and cynics, fellow Seattlites, and perverts with a fetish for "orientals" that search for "Korean Beauty" on search engines.
eugene cho 2010
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I believe they use the term "orientals" for Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc.
Latest Articles 2010
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The NDP's Nathan Cullen on "orientals" and the RCMP
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Syria, Morocco, Iraq etc. within an older colonial discourse as Mizrahim ( "orientals") - that is, in line with the prevailing division in the Western mind: East for Islam versus West for Christianity, so Laor.
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"orientals," who, half an hour after the carriage had arrived, appeared in their respective undress uniforms of the Royal Engineers and the
A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874
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As a literary trope, such word spinning—a kind of orientalism practiced by the orientals—is harmless enough.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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