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n. - A specialist in Asian subjects.

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  • If, like me, you need the joke explained though I did figure out that mustashriq was 'orientalist', hie yourself over to Language Log, where Mark Liberman does the honors.
  • And that no hotel could find room for a pregnant woman has a special Middle Eastern flavour - but now I'm becoming an "orientalist".
  • But at least one of his supporters fears that Said did not take account of the vast "orientalist" literature of Italy, Germany and Russia.
  • Neither do I, but: ‘respectable but out of date (and (maybe kind of orientalist)’ seems to be the consensus.
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