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Occasionally coercing Nancy's friend to display Eastern art (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

origami

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'eastern art' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'occasionally coercing nancy's friend' is the wordplay.
'occasionally' indicates alternate letters.
'nancy's friend' becomes 'ami' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The alternate letters of 'coercing' are 'orig'.
'orig'+'ami'='ORIGAMI'

'to display' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for origami that I've seen before include "Creation of objects from paper" , "Eastern art" , "Jap. paper-folding art" , "Making of paper shape" , "Art originally created in simple materials to design bird forms" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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