Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Things, especially decorative objects, produced in or associated with eastern Asia.
Wiktionary
- n. Things from the “orient”, especially decorative objects from eastern Asia
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.”
“There was a whole period in US History where they determined that orientalia was THE thing.”
“Chinese figurines and 19th-century European orientalia comprising romantic images of dancing girls and harems.”
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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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Agatha Christie
Charming and intriguing words one finds in AG's murder mysteries. Also see Murdered, you say?
ambassadress, aperitif, baluster, cause célèbre, crime passionnel, embankment, embonpoint, galantine, mauvais sujet, mephistophelean, mountebank, purloin and 67 more...
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-alia(s)
penetralia, personalia, genitalia, bacchanalia, marginalia, saturnalia, orientalia, paraphernalia, realia, regalia, latrinalia
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marmoreal, monomania, parenthetically, vestigial, heathenish, harlequinade, hallucinatory, somnipathy, alphanumeric, algidity, agrarian, acclivitous and 61 more...
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