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Meanings of orientalism in English

Portuguese
orientalismo

The scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people.

        orientalismo
        Usage of orientalism in English
        1
        The whole of 19th-century orientalism is there, condensed into a few articles.
        The Guardian
        2
        The concept of orientalism is the legacy of the great Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said.
        The Irish Times
        3
        The tension between socialist realism and orientalism is played out on the walls here.
        The Guardian
        4
        There is a suggestion of affluent orientalism that attracts strongly.
        Floyd Grandon's Honor
        5
        As for Ahmed, he displayed his orientalism by appearing unconcerned.
        The Adventures of Kathlyn
        6
        But his erudition in regard to orientalism was enormous.
        Recollections of My Youth
        7
        The following lines are the very perfection of Della Cruscan sentiment, and affected orientalism of style.
        The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits
        8
        To all of this new, strange music, Liszt and Chopin added the wonderful tracery of orientalism.
        Critical and Historical Essays / Lectures delivered at Columbia ...
        9
        You have orientalism, but little or no orientation.
        The Judgment House
        10
        I got up my orientalism from books, and sultans and sultanas at masquerades,' he added, archly.
        Venetia
        11
        By association of ideas with the orientalism of Sultana he was called by the girls the Bashibazook.
        This Freedom
        12
        The next instant she was swerving to avoid an orientalism, which would have made it too unworldly.
        Orthodoxy
        13
        He was weary of orientalism and mystery.
        Triple Spies
        14
        Your orientalism is only undisciplined self-will.
        The Judgment House
        15
        It is unlike any other; yet underneath lies the original tinge of orientalism, the wailing semitones of all barbaric music.
        Russia, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers
        16
        The tale became a staple of orientalism and, later, of the campaign to criminalize marijuana in America in the 1930s.
        The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
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        Portuguese
        orientalismo
        Orientalism through the time