Books and other items relating to or characteristic of the Orient.
(有关东方国家的或东方国家特有的)东方书籍;东方物品
Example sentencesExamples
Probably because it's an early work, its influences sound out rather clearly: early Stravinsky, Soviet Prokofieff, Borodinish orientalia, and here and there a bit of Blochian meditation.
He paid meticulous attention to the warmer sonorities without letting the tinkly orientalia (especially in the Ping, Pang, Pong scenes) obscure the predominantly smooth melodic contours.
His music is very much of its time, and I should say it has, in its extra-musical concerns of orientalia, hothouse sex, and Celtic twilight, links to the literary Decadents of the Victorian Eighties and Nineties.
Origin
Early 20th century: from Latin, neuter plural of orientalis 'oriental'.