Meanings of great orient in English

And all those robes be orfrayed all about, and dubbed full of precious stones and of great orient pearls, full richly.

'So this is the great Orient Express,' Tooley said.

Henry II wore jewelled gloves reaching to the elbow, and had a hawk-glove sewn with twelve rubies and fifty-two great orients.

A few turbaned heads, inscrutably quiet almond-eyes, and others of energetic step and speech brought to mind the Great Orient, India and China and Japan.

'And in the first chamber I saw an idol seated on a throne of jasper bordered with great orient pearls.