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
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 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 George Barr McCutcheon
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
She wore armlets and girdle of silver filagree, a silver comb in the dark tresses, and large filagree loops in her ears gave the beautiful face a half-oriental character.
From The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan
