Football remains an exotic import in a country that has enthusiastically adopted American baseball and turned it into a Japanese institution.

Gibbon claimed that this exotic import from a conquered province weakened the soldiers of Rome and left it open to attack.

"Anyway, renewable resources make more sense than erudite or exotic imports."

The steps were meant to display china, to show off one's exotic imports from the East.

But it was a foreign show, a matter mostly of exotic imports.

Unlike brown and rainbow trout, which were exotic imports to eastern North America, brookies are an indiginous species; the fish of our forefathers.

A small twist in the situation is the fact that sake has enjoyed great success of late as a slightly exotic import in the United States.

A hundred years ago, before salad came to be considered a healthful appetizer, it was treated as an exotic European import.

This has introduced non-Western music to Western audiences not only has "exotic" imports, but also as local music played by fellow citizens.

"Carlsberg was considered an exotic import at that time."