oriental
adjective
Usually Oriental
half-oriental
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a word derived from
oriental.
Example Sentences
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Throughout those dark ages Byzantium had blazed, fitfully bright, as the half-classical, half-oriental capital of pagan and Christian art alike.
From Time Magazine Archive
These treasures were wrapped separately in half-oriental fashion in pieces of silk, Goethe handling them with reverence.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
They found that it was a half-modern, half-oriental city, half-simple, half-wicked, with the gay along with the drab, with bright lights along with the gloom.
From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Lewis E. Jahns
The scene in which he figures here as the hero is laid in Bucharest, the half-oriental capital of Wallachia, at the farther end of Europe:
From The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 by Various
The world's metropolis lay on the Black Sea, and was a half-oriental colony called Byzantium, or, after Constantine the Great, Constantinople.
From Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg
