Crossword clues for levantine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Levantine \Le*vant"ine\, n.
A native or inhabitant of the Levant.
[F. levantine, or It. levantina.] A stout twilled silk fabric, formerly made in the Levant.
Levantine \Le*vant"ine\ (l[-e]*v[a^]nt"[i^]n or
l[e^]v"ant*[imac]n; 277), a. [F. levantin, or It. levantino.
See Levant, n.]
Of or pertaining to the Levant.
--J. Spencer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Levant + -ine (1).
Wikipedia
Levantine may refer to:
- Anything pertaining to the Levant, including any person from the Levant
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Levantines (Latin Christians), Levantines, Franco-Levantines, or Latin-Levantines, Latin Christians who lived under the Ottoman Empire or in the modern Middle East.
- Italian Levantine
- Levantine cuisine, the cuisine of the Levant
- Levantine Cultural Center, now called The Markaz, a religious cultural center in West Los Angeles, California.
Usage examples of "levantine".
Did the ghosts of Levantine girls haunt those cursory checkups, suggested by the fragility of my collarbone, or the birdcall of my small, congested lungs?
Dana Da was neither Finn, Chin, Bhil, Bengali, Lap, Nair, Gond, Romaney, Magh, Bokhariot, Kurd, Armenian, Levantine, Jew, Persian, Punjabi, Madrasi, Parsee, nor anything else known to ethnologists.
I saw a number of stalls where Spanish and Levantine wines were kept, and a number of people drinking in them.
Wolfgang Kaiser is wearing his favorite garment, a tailored silk dinner jacket, its ivory color chosen to offset his burnished skin, suitably darkened by the Levantine sun.
The old Levantine had a shop on Melrose, a junk shop with everything in the window from a folding baby carriage to a French horn, from a mother-of-pearl lorgnette in a faded plush case to one of those.
Marineau was a handsome tall man, somewhat in the Levantine style, with red lips a little too full, a tiny silky mustache, large limpid brown eyes, shiny black hair that might or might not have been marceled, and long, pale, nicotined fingers.
Her skin was tanned to a deep olive brown, flesh firmed up and trimmed down and turned to something more like the opulent shape of a Levantine fertility goddess.
At least now we don't look like a Levantine white slaver and his latest blond captive.