Meanings of provenience in English

The folk-lore respecting the provenience of children may be divided into two categories.

Writer interviews Col. William O. Mueller, whose sale items are revealed to have a dubious provenience.

My mind shifted from the question of how I'd gotten the picture to the question of its provenience.

Consequently it is necessary for a traveller to learn from the inhabitants the provenience of each cranium, and every one in the house knows it.

At present he thinks his only issue will be a fine for failure to report proper value and provenience of an import entering the country.

Parsons, E. C. Pueblo-Indian Folk-Tales, probably of Spanish Provenience (JAFL 31: 216-255).

100) is of uncertain provenience, but is nearly related in style to the marbles of Aegina.

[Footnote 18: The Schubart story is reprinted by Weltrich, I, p. 183 ff., who attempts to trace its provenience.