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The Orient

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  1. Term referring to Asia. Orient means “the East,” as opposed to Occident, “the West.”


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The Orient Express it wasn’t, but every meal hit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

The Orient Express was a passenger train service originally running from Paris to which other terminal city?

From Slate • Sep. 13, 2023

The Orient Express — officially called the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express — has been rolling across Europe for 38 years, before recently being sidelined by the coronavirus pandemic.

From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2020

“If you’re casting them for the right reasons, then a big name is brilliant,” says Barrett, who got Kenneth Branagh to narrate Murder On The Orient Express.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2019

The Orient Express had started on its three-days’ journey across Europe.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie