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Orientalize
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orientalize
English
Alternative forms
en Orientalise non-Oxford British spelling
en orientalize alternative capitalization, North American and Oxford British spelling, orientalise alternative capitalization, non-Oxford British spelling
Etymology
From en Oriental ize.
Verb
To make Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.
en 1924 Herbert Weir Smyth Aeschylean Tragedy III. The Persians 91 But had Persia triumphed on sea and land, and held its conquest in the fifth century, Greece had been orientalized.
Translations
to make Oriental
Vietnamese: vi Á Đông hóa, vi Đông Á hóa
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