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zante

Zantewood \Zan"te*wood`\, n. (Bot.)

  1. A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under Fustic.

  2. Satinwood ( Chloroxylon Swietenia).

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zante

n. (alternative form of zantewood English)

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Zante (disambiguation)

Zante is an alternative name of the Greek island of Zakynthos.

Zante may also refer to

in Latvia
  • Zante Manor, a manor house
  • Zante parish
in the United States
  • Zante, California
  • Zante Plantation, a plantation in South Carolina
Other
  • Zante currant
  • Zante, a concept car built by TVR in 1972

Usage examples of "zante".

If Cyrus Harding was not mistaken in his calculation, the island had almost the extent of Malta or Zante, in the Mediterranean, but it was at the same time much more irregular and less rich in capes, promontories, points, bays, or creeks.

The footman who had seduced her had taken her to Trieste to lie in, and the scoundrel lived on the sale of her charms for five or six months, and then a sea captain, who had taken a fancy to her, took her to Zante with the footman, who passed for her husband.

He would go to the coffeehouses and tell, with touching charm, of his life, of his sometime brilliance, of the distinguished ladies and the serenades and mandolin concerts in Zante.

Dolfin had been compelled to solicit from the Grand Council a lucrative governorship, and had been appointed to Zante.

And those asses' voices of theirs were not suited to the love songs of Zante.

He played the guitar and sang pretty canzone from Zante, till they grew a little calmer.

They'd gone to Zante — or Zakynthos, the island of Zek's birth, from which she'd taken her name — so that she could, well, pay her respects to Jazz Simmons who was buried there.