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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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Christie is the world's best-selling author of all time and is known for her 66 detective novels, including Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile.

From BBC

Guests on the Orient Express Corinthian ship have access to custom tailoring as well as a library with 1,500 books.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From The Wall Street Journal

Last week, they celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary with a trip on the Orient Express from Paris, where they met in 2005, to La Cervara in Portofino, where they held their wedding ceremony, in a medieval monastery.

From BBC

He was forced to leave behind his barbershop, the Orient Salon, in Damascus following the outbreak of war in 2011.

From BBC