half-oriental
- 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 Francke, Kuno
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 Strindberg, August
The quaint, half-oriental costumes of the townspeople, the odd little children, the bright colors, the perfect love and reverence that shone in the faces of the multitude impressed her deeply.
From Beverly of Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr
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 Jahns, Lewis E.
