Sentence examples for custom originated from inspiring English sources
Tells how the custom originated, symbols used, process.
The custom originated in the British Isles, with a large turnip or other vegetable rather than a pumpkin.
The custom originated centuries ago in small villages when infant mortality rates were so high that it was a blessing if babies reached their first birthdays.
The custom originated in 1850 when an ordinance was passed requiring that a horseman go ahead of all trains to warn drivers of horses that an engine was coming so they wouldn't get skitish.
Some have proposed that the modern custom originated in France, officially with the Edict of Roussillon (promulgated in August 1564), in which Charles IX decreed that the new year would no longer begin on Easter, as had been common throughout Christendom, but rather on January 1.
A rather unique custom, originating in Louisiana....a mixture of words of French Creole and Native Americans that means a "little something extra", usually from a vendor of some sort.
All human societies have been curious about how their customs originated and what the differences between their own culture and that of neighbouring societies might mean.
The most distinctive tribal dance customs originated in response to animistic religious beliefs i.e., that all objects and living things have living souls.
Click through the slideshow below to challenge your knowledge of wedding traditions around the world and see where these Big Day customs originated from.
– Julie Le BarOne VICE France.
One tradition based on a pagan custom that originated with the early Slavs, is that on Christmas Eve, Serbian men go outside, shoot their guns and scour the woods looking for the perfect oak tree.
