oriental
adjective
Usually Oriental
orientally
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a word derived from
oriental.
Example Sentences
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When an especially handsome guest entered his orientally furnished, book-lined labyrinth in the old Greek quarter of Alexandria, Cavafy would light an extra candle in silent tribute.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kuniyoshi made his reputation in the 1920s with relatively cheerful designs featuring plump ladies in swimming, cows, babies and trapeze artists fitted together in orientally flat, bird's-eye perspectives.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can hardly think of it without taking off my boots and prostrating myself orientally.
From Marge Askinforit by Barry Pain
Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
From The Younger Set by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Coulomb story is that a pasteboard doll, with half-shrouded head, superimposed on the shoulders of Mr. Coulomb, himself orientally draped, moved about in the dusk at Adyar when an “astral” apparition was wanted.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
