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Example sentences for: oriental

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What began in a.d. 830 as the Doges’ chapel for the remains of the evangelist Mark, the republic’s patron saint, was rebuilt in the 11th century as a grandiose Byzantine-Oriental basilica influenced by the Hagia Sofia in Constantinople.
Oriental wares: In the souqs you will find all the favourite wares of the Middle East, such as leather goods, brass and copper, nargilas (hubble-bubble pipes), and of course carpets and kilims.
It is neither European nor Oriental, but an unparalleled and intoxicating blend; it is, quite simply, unique.
The merchants of Venice that were the backbone of the Most Serene Republic were only too happy to dessiminate their Oriental cargoes of exotic goods to the dour lives of Lombards in the Po valley and beyond the Alps to the courts of northern Europe.
Here, the Oriental spices, and silks and exotic cargoes from faraway ports were unloaded from the republic’s ancient galleons.