
Meaning of ORIENTALISM
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| Definition: | |  Orientalism The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University, examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs. more details ... |
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| Definition: | | \O`ri*en"tal*ism\, n. [Cf. F. orientalisme.]
1. Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar
to Oriental people.
2. Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history,
literature, etc. --London Quart. Rev.
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