exotica
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of exotica
1875–80; < Latin, neuter plural of exōticus exotic
Example Sentences
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Long viewed in the West as a niche interest — or worse, exotica — African culture has become the continent’s soft power and, increasingly, a source of hard cash.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2023
But is lab-grown meat really likely to put mammoths, dodos and other exotica on the menu?
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2023
The set is part tiki-bar exotica and part spaghetti-western dreamscape, each track anchored by Lewis’s theremin-like whistle.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021
Gate 35X at Reagan National Airport did not have the utilitarian exotica of the Dulles people-movers, trundling across a tarmac Tatooine.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2021
Sure, they keep cool, but I don’t feel like looking like an exhibit at an international museum of exotica.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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