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zante
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zantewood \Zan"te*wood`\, n. (Bot.) A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante , and zante fustic . See Fustet , and the Note under Fustic . Satinwood ( Chloroxylon Swietenia ).
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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, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of zantewood English)
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.