Sentence examples for oriental fan from inspiring English sources

A woman with an oriental fan.

This modest storefront at 227 Old Country Road (516-739-3666) in the Seaman's Shopping Center, with its bare tables, minimal decoration (an Oriental fan, a few coolie hats and a pagoda-style bar) and deferential waitresses, is serving some of the best Thai food on Long Island.

At his desk, he would wear a Japanese ceremonial kimono, cool himself with an oriental fan, and smoke cigarettes in a jeweled cigarette holder.

The Portuguese traders who opened up the sea route to China in the 15th century, however, were probably the first to bring Oriental fans to Europe in any quantity, and thereafter the importation of these curios increased.

The concierges traded takes on New York: Kenneth Abisror, from the Mandarin Oriental, wearing a fan pin instead of a clef d'or ("I send people here — we're right upstairs"); Maria Trejo-McDonald, from the Ritz-Carlton ("The Frick maybe isn't on the tip of everyone's tongue").

It then analyzes the links to figure out which Web pages are held in high esteem by members of specific interest groups -- collectors of Oriental rugs or fans of scrapple -- instead of looking primarily at those that are recommended by a larger audience.

Inside, we were in another world, wood-paneled, high-ceilinged and modestly elegant, with leather chairs and love seat, Oriental carpets, a ceiling fan and swinging light fixtures.

After the Japanese ports reopened to trade in the West in the 1850s, Europe was flooded with Oriental bric-a-brac — fans, kimonos, lacquerware, bronzes and silks — along with woodcut prints by masters of the Ukiyo-e school.

If only by virtue of the velvet-collared cape and fan-backed oriental chair he used as accoutrements at a top-secret 1927 meeting on Long Island, Montagu Norman of the Bank of England emerges as this book's most exotic figure.

"Just today I was asked, does Fan Bingbing represent Oriental actresses?

The fan is an oriental element, and an expression of the artistic trend known as Japonisme which was then prevalent in European art.