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- noun Plural form of
Oriental .
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Examples
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We must close all our markets like those freakin 'Orientals do.
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Born at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Orientals at Wycliffe College, Toronto, in 1922 and his Master of Arts in 1924.
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But the true chronology, which harmonizes with the Greeks and Orientals, is ascertained by John
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Salt, among the Orientals, is the symbol of hospitality, and the pious robber immediately retired without spoil or damage.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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39 The beauties of nature seem always to provoke hunger in Orientals, especially
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The Orientals were a thousand times more jealous than the Franks and Gauls.
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It isn't clear that the Asian -- Asians again is a big category because it's not just what we used to call Orientals, it goes all the way to the Mediterranean, so it's a very heterogeneous category, but it's not clear that they're going to identify with the minority as opposed to the white majority.
Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster 1995
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She believed that the leader of the Orientals was the heavy-set Chinaman who had struck Chessleigh Copley down with the club.
Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands Alice B. Emerson
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The Hebrews as well as other Orientals were accustomed to distinguish between the forehead baldness, which might be natural, and that baldness which might be the consequence of disease.
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It is very important to accustom one's mind to the Denk and Anschauungswerk of the Orientals, which is so different from that of Europeans or their language.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873
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