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Meanings of orientalist in English

Russian
востоковед
Portuguese
orientalista
Spanish
orientalista
Catalan
orientalista

Person who studies Oriental cultures.

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востоковед
Usage of orientalist in English
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Nothing like a dazzling Broadway musical adaptation to reinforce troubling orientalist stereotypes, then.
The Guardian
2
But of course no seasoned orientalist has any idea of dying without seeing India.
The House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Gra...
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The image of Venetian tourist kitsch gives way to the stereotype of cut-price orientalist finery.
The Guardian
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Her perfume of orientalist fantasy casts the onlooker as a decadent connoisseur of sensual pleasure.
The Guardian
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What Arthur Probsthain, who was a distinguished orientalist, would have made of it is a moot point.
The Guardian
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Any good orientalist could probably refer you to commentaries on the Qur'án and on the Buddhist Scriptures.
The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 2)
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AMARI, MICHELE (1806-1889), Italian orientalist and patriot, was born at Palermo.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Crawford writes to me that his notice (John Crawford, orientalist, ethnologist, etc., 1783-1868.
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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He was sitting in the Botanical Garden sketching a plant, when Dean Celsius, a great orientalist and theologian of his day, passed by.
Hero Tales of the Far North
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Every Orientalist in Europe would patronize it discursively with Sanskrit and Pali texts.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
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The chronology of these periods varies according to the systems of different orientalists.
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
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Most either tend to the luridly sensationalist or fall prey to Orientalist trappings.
The Irish Times
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This scribe also copied, about 1810, for the same Orientalist, the Ikhwßn al-Safß
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13
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Hark forward! fitfully to another Orientalist, his younger brother, attired like a midshipman.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
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Raske, the Orientalist, who had visited Serampore, was a Professor in the University there.
The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & Missionary
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He was learned even to erudition, and almost an Orientalist.
Les Misérables
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Portuguese
orientalista
Orientalist through the time