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Example sentences for: oriental

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Under the Ottomans it held the main market and despite the great amount of archaeological excavation that has taken place since the 1820s, it still retains the atmosphere of an oriental bazaar.
Here, the Oriental spices, and silks and exotic cargoes from faraway ports were unloaded from the republic’s ancient galleons.
In Eckler's paper on Single-Letter Surnames we learn that all letters exist as a surname (and are overwhelmingly likely to be held by people of Oriental ancestry, p. 264), and only Q is missing.
Just north of the Pueblo are the crowded streets and Oriental architecture of L.A.’s Chinatown, while to the south is Little Tokyo, the cultural center of the Japanese community.
The sights are endless: the Hindu gopuram tower-gates of the south, the temples of Varanasi (Benares), the cave monasteries of Ajanta and Ellora, the beautiful and erotic sculptures of Khajuraho, the splendid marble palaces, fortresses, and mausoleums of the emperors and maharajas in Delhi, Agra, and Rajasthan, the colonial government buildings in New Delhi, or the unusual style of the Gothic-Oriental railway station in Mumbai (known until 1995 as Bombay).