provenancenoun [ S or U ]
uk/ˈprɒv.ən.əns/us/ˈprɑː.vən.əns/formalthe place of origin of something:
jewels of uncertain provenance
This raised doubts about the provenance of the painting.
I don't need to see a label to identify the provenance of a garment that someone is wearing.
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- be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc. idiom
- beginning
- birthplace
- born
- breeding ground
- come from somewhere/sth
- emanate from/through sth/sb
- fount
- genesis
- hail from somewhere
- issue
- issue from sth
- root
- seed
- son
- source
- stem
- stem from sth
- the cradle of sth idiom
- ur-
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