exotic

• adj.エキゾチック; 外国; エキゾチカ

exot-、外、ex-から。 すなわち、エキゾチックな、エキゾチックな。

exotic (adj.)

1590s, "belonging to another country," from Middle French exotique (16c.) and directly from Latin exoticus, from Greek exotikos "foreign," literally "from the outside," from exo "outside" (see exo-). Sense of "unusual, strange" in English first recorded 1620s, from notion of "alien, outlandish." In reference to strip-teasers and dancing girls, it is attested by 1942, American English.

Exotic dancer in the nightclub trade means a girl who goes through a few motions while wearing as few clothes as the cops will allow in the city where she is working ... ["Life," May 5, 1947]

As a noun from 1640s, "anything of foreign origin," originally plants.

1. He sent a basket of exotic fruit and a card.

彼は異域の果物かごとカードを1枚送った。

2.Consumers are increasingly interested in the authenticaly exotic tastes.

消費者は本当の異国の味にますます愛着を持っている。

3.A smuggling racket is killing thousands of exotic birds each year.

密輸活動では毎年数千羽の珍しい鳥が死亡している。

4.He took frequent junkets with friends to exotic locales.

彼はよく友人たちとエキゾチックな場所で公金遊びをしている。

5.the exotic blooms of the orchid

奇妙なラン