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adjective being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
adjective strikingly strange or unusual
originBorrowed from Middle French exotique, from Latin exōticus, from Ancient Greek ἐξωτικός (exōtikós, “foreign”, literally “from the outside”), from ἐξω- (exō-, “outside”), from ἐξ (ex, “out of”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0