What does "levant" mean?
Levant: The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
Additional senses
- 2.A levanter (the wind so called).
- 3.Eastern. [Obs.] Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton.
- 4.To run away from one's debts; to decamp. [Colloq. Eng.] Thackeray.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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