Lexic.us

Definition of Oriental person

1. Noun. A member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oriental Person

Literary usage of Oriental person

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Legal Obligations Arising Out of Treaty Relations Between China and by Minchien Tuk Zung Tyau (1917)
"... to frequent any restaurant, laundry or other place of business or amusement owned, kept, or managed by any Japanese, Chinese, or other oriental person. ..."

2. More T Leaves by Edward Francis Turner (1888)
"... but I think he put both his arms round me and then hit the oriental person in a sympathetic manner in the chest), and the oriental person shook hands ..."

3. Imperial Unity and the Dominions by Arthur Berriedale Keith (1916)
"laundry, or other place of business or amusement owned, kept, or managed by any Japanese, Chinaman, or other oriental person. The strictness of this law was ..."

4. Fashions of the day in medicine and science: A Few More Hints by Henry Strickland Constable (1879)
"At once the fetish is discarded, and for the next few thousands of years the uncivilized oriental person, together with untold millions of his ..."

5. He Usually Lived with a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman by George Garrigues (2006)
"I had completely forgotten that seductive, oriental person who glowed all over a Tucson landscape. I have, from pure lack of energy, cut myself off from ..."

6. On the Cosmic Relations by Henry Holt (1914)
"... probably I might have felt myself some specific oriental person, and talked and acted the part, as I was already whistling and thumping it. ..."

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