Sentence:  I could not see the [Russian] Embassador in his coach; but his attendants in their habits and fur caps very handsome, comely men ... But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks <WSD>strange</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Belonging to another country; foreign.