Sentence examples for oriental origin from inspiring English sources
Even the less exotic drugs of European or Oriental origin have gone up in price.
Experts said that the fingerprint suggests Da Vinci's mother was of "oriental origin".
Many were black, but there were also young whites, adult whites, Mexican ‐ Americans, American Indians and some persons of Oriental origin.
Others include the Bukharan Quarter; Meʾa Sheʿarim, founded by Orthodox Jews from eastern and central Europe, with its scores of small synagogues and yeshivas; and Maḥane Yehuda, with its fruit and vegetable market, inhabited mainly by Jews of North African and Oriental origin.
The word Panthera is probably of Oriental origin and retraceable to the Ancient Greek word panther, the Latin word panthera, the Old French word pantere, most likely meaning "the yellowish animal", or from pandarah meaning whitish-yellow.
In addition, its oriental origin makes it culturally relevant to the elderly Chinese population.
Less than a century ago, Jews living in Europe were specifically earmarked for extermination on account of their non-white, non-European, Oriental origins.
Benayoun is of oriental Jewish origin, and religious – representing an increasingly important demographic in Israel, and one that is unlikely to support any division of Jerusalem.
The system of ornamentation known as damascening is Oriental in origin and was much practiced by the early goldsmiths of Damascus; hence the name.
The use of deep, overhanging eaves with curving ends was also Oriental in origin.
However, many equine scholars are skeptical of this theory, and state that, whatever the early origins, the later selective breeding and local climate and soil types had a greater influence on the breed than any early Oriental blood.
