Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence.
1 The folk-lore respecting the provenience of children may be divided into two categories.
2 Writer interviews Col. William O. Mueller, whose sale items are revealed to have a dubious provenience .
3 My mind shifted from the question of how I'd gotten the picture to the question of its provenience .
4 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.
5 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.
6 Parsons, E. C. Pueblo-Indian Folk-Tales, probably of Spanish Provenience (JAFL 31: 216-255).
7 100) is of uncertain provenience , but is nearly related in style to the marbles of Aegina.
8 [Footnote 18: The Schubart story is reprinted by Weltrich, I, p. 183 ff., who attempts to trace its provenience .
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