"Italian of the East" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the supposed similarities in pronunciation.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Italian of the East",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "the Italian of the East",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The Telugu language."
      ],
      "id": "en-Italian_of_the_East-en-name-akbhsq6K",
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "Telugu",
          "Telugu"
        ],
        [
          "language",
          "language"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) The Telugu language."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1801, John Collegins, “Literary Characteristics of The Most Distinguished Members of the Asiatic Society”, in The Asiatic Annual Register, page 114",
          "text": "Or in soft whispers may he be address'd, By girls who lisp th' Italian of the East?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 128",
          "text": "Our first native servant, a boy called \"Omah,\" came from Timor in the Gulnare, and I then heard spoken for the first time what is now as familiar to me as my mother tongue, the melodious Malayan language, the \"Italian of the East,\" as some writers term it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The Malay language."
      ],
      "id": "en-Italian_of_the_East-en-name-ROtP5KUk",
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "Malay",
          "Malay"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) The Malay language."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Italian of the East"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the supposed similarities in pronunciation.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Italian of the East",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "the Italian of the East",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English poetic terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The Telugu language."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "Telugu",
          "Telugu"
        ],
        [
          "language",
          "language"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) The Telugu language."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English poetic terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1801, John Collegins, “Literary Characteristics of The Most Distinguished Members of the Asiatic Society”, in The Asiatic Annual Register, page 114",
          "text": "Or in soft whispers may he be address'd, By girls who lisp th' Italian of the East?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 128",
          "text": "Our first native servant, a boy called \"Omah,\" came from Timor in the Gulnare, and I then heard spoken for the first time what is now as familiar to me as my mother tongue, the melodious Malayan language, the \"Italian of the East,\" as some writers term it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The Malay language."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "Malay",
          "Malay"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) The Malay language."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Italian of the East"
}