Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the orient or east.
- In accordance with Eastern characteristics or customs.
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- adverb In an
oriental manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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While the air of it was orientally catchy, it was chanted slowly, almost monotonously, but it was quickly provocative of excitement to the spectators:
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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I only know that at sight of our bewilderment a workman doing something to the staircase clapped his hands orientally, and the custodian was quickly upon us in response to a form of summons which we were to find so often used in Spain.
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Lewisham plunged recklessly — orientally — into an awe-inspiring place with mitred napkins.
Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004
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They bore a general letter of introduction (the Babu salaamed to it orientally) to all Government officials.
Kim 2003
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Chief Investigator Ilya Nikitin, his thin hair combed wet straight back over his round head, squinted orientally through the smoke of the cigarette clamped between his teeth.
Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981
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Masons, who seldom lost an opportunity to bring forward their orientally derived Nature-lore.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Bill's wet body was slippery, and Bill's merry soul was all for frolicsome gamboling, and he slid out of Milt's grasp, he sloshed around in the tub, he sprinkled Milt's sacred good suit with soapy water, and escaped, and in the costume of Adam he danced orientally in Milt's room, till he was seized with sleepiness and cosmic grief, and retired to
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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While the air of it was orientally catchy, it was chanted slowly, almost monotonously, but it was quickly provocative of excitement to the spectators:
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They bore a general letter of introduction (the Babu salaamed to it orientally) to all
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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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.
The Younger Set 1899
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