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Orientalism   Listen
noun
Orientalism  n.  
1.
Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people.
2.
Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc.





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"Orientalism" Quotes from Famous Books



... had never been outside of Kansas before. Small wonder that the mountains, the desert, the vinelands, and orchard-lands, and rose-lands of California, the half-orientalism of San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean with its world-old mystery of untamed immensity should fill each day with a newer interest; or that the conditions of soldier life at Camp Merritt beside the Golden Gate, to which the eager-hearted, untrained young student from the Kansas prairie ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter


Words linked to "Orientalism" :   liberal arts, humanistic discipline, quality, humanities, arts, orientalist


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