OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2706

provenance

/ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
procedencia • proveniencia
Place or source of origin.
Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contex…
procedencia • proveniencia
The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
Further support for the Shansi provenance came in 1965, when a bronze quadruped with identical ornamentation and of approximately the same size as the Freer example was unearthed i…
This spear is of Viking provenance.
procedencia • proveniencia
The history of ownership of a work of art.
The picture is of royal provenance.
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