Not P but Moby-Dick (70)

[Mark Kohut]

exotic: special, unusual, unique, different..... it can also mean foreign
-- like someone who looks very different than the people you usually see

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 4:03 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 88:
>
> For like certain other omnivorous roving lovers that might be named, my
> Lord Whale has no taste for the nursery, however much for the bower; and
> so, being a great traveller, he leaves his anonymous babies all over the
> world; every baby an exotic.
>
> What does "exotic" mean here?
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