英语词汇exotic的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	exotic
词源	exotic [L16th] Exotic is from Greek exōtikos ‘foreign’, from exō ‘outside’. The notion of ‘foreign origin’ gave the word a dimension of glamour, hence phrases such as exotic dancer [M20th], first introduced in the USA, for a stripper.
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