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levanter en · NOUN

Etymology

* (wind): Levant + -er; Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), figuratively: to flee eastward, literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean Sea and southern France. * (person): levant + -er

Meanings

1. An Easterly wind that blows from the Mediterranean, through the straits of Gibraltar to the Atlantic.
2. One who levants, or absconds to avoid paying a debt.

Forms

Synonyms

Levant (wind)

Translations (4)

es levante (an easterly wind) · pl lewanter (an easterly wind) · ca llevant (an easterly wind) · el λεβάντες (an easterly wind)