occidental

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Yes: there lay the root of the matter--this feeling of aloofness from all that was occidental, a feeling which the English appointments of the room did nothing to dispel.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to the countries of the Occident or their peoples or cultures; western.
  2. noun A native or inhabitant of an Occidental country; a westerner.

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  • The popular idea that things occidental are reversed in the Orient was amusingly caricatured in a sketch he made of a German face; by reversing its lines he converted it into an old-time Japanese countenance. —  Lineage, Life and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot
  • Absolutely charming, the sterling silver ankle bracelet goes well with any casual dress for women, occidental or oriental. —  ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
  • What most of us know of these ultra-occidental regions may be summed up in a very few words. —  Handbook to the new Gold-fields
  • On the 19th the Queen of England made her entry, and on August 25 a State ball was given in her honor at Versailles at which I was presented to her and to Prince Albert The Prince, handsome and cool in his black uniform, conversed with me courteously, but in his manner there was a kind of malevolent curiosity from which I concluded that my anti-occidental influence upon the King was not unknown to him. —  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle
  • The sun and moon (some say) dance about the earth, the three upper planets about the sun as their centre, now stationary, now direct, now retrograde, now in apogee, then in perigee, now swift then slow, occidental, oriental, they turn round, jump and trace, [Symbol: Mars] and [Symbol: Mercury] about the sun with those thirty-three Maculae or Bourbonian planet, circa Solem saltantes Cytharedum_, saith Fromundus. —  The Anatomy of Melancholy
 

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  1. = French occidental = Spanish Portuguese occidental = Italian occidentale, from Latin occidentalis, of the west, from occiden(t-)s, the west: see occident.
 

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/ɑksɪˈdɛntəl/
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