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Vehicle has got hired to go round old Mediterranean area
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levant
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Mediterranean lands east of Italy," late 15c., from Middle French levant "the Orient," from present participle of lever "to rise" (from Latin levare "to raise;" see lever ). The region so called in reference to the direction of sunrise.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The levant is an easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean Sea and southern France, an example of mountain-gap wind . In Roussillon it is called "llevant" and in Corsica "levante". In the western Mediterranean, particularly when the wind blows ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Levant \Le"vant\ (l[=e]"vant; 277), a. Eastern. [Obs.] Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. --Milton.
Usage examples of levant.
Leurs Altesses royales, dit le roi se levant, se tournant vers Mesdames et saluant.
In this chamber some half dozen persons were seated in the Eastern fashion, and smoking either the choice tobaccoes of Syria through the cherry-wood or jasmine tube of a Turkish or Egyptian chibouque, or inhaling through rose-water the more artificial flavour of the nargileh, which is the hookah of the Levant.
He lives in southern France, grows his own poppies, makes real varnishes from dammar to copal, and gets his resins from all the right places, from India to the Levant.
Whereas before, a world-weary dragoman had hardly been able to set foot on the veranda of a tourist hotel without being pounced upon by wealthy Europeans in search of the rumored depravities of the Levant, now these same poor slaves to the lusts of foreign exploiters were summarily scorned.
Levant islands, under Maitine de Vertendona, 10 galeons, 800 mariners, 2000 souldiers, 310 great pieces, etc.
I translated this into the Koine dialect of Greek, the marketplace lingua franca understood throughout the Levant.
Un joyeux rayon du soleil levant entrait par sa lucarne et lui venait frapper le visage.
The roots of this Orchis abound with a glutinous sweetish juice, of which a Salep may be made which is quite equal to any brought from the Levant.
Toute la nuit il dormit avec cette idee, et le matin, au soleil levant, il etait dans les prairies, pour prendre possession de ces terres deja siennes.
In the month of November of the same year Bonaparte sent Poussielgue, under the pretence of inspecting the ports of the Levant, to give the finishing stroke to the meditated expedition against Malta.
And this profligate cityscape is populated by characters--some met, some merely mentioned--with names equally evocative: Porphyria Levant, Estella Velvet, Brother Orphelin, Cerberus Cresset, Mavortian von Heber.
I bought it for two rose nobles from a shipman who came from the Levant.
Saracen, Algerine, Barbary - they were all pirates and had been for centuries, whether they came from the Levant in the east or Algiers in the west.
But two thousand years ago, the binding language of the Levant had been Aramaic, now considered a dead language.
Sir Thomas Browne, in full crushed Levant morocco, the backstrips tooled in gilt with wonderful ingenuity and grace.