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Levantine, a. and n.|lɪˈvæntɪn, ˈlɛvəntɪn|
[f. as prec. + -ine. Cf. F. levantin (masc.), -ine (fem.).]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Levant; † in early use, pertaining to the east, eastern. Also, recalling or resembling the manners of the Levantines. Of a vessel: Trading to the Levant.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. §4. 43 This star did not trouble Herod till the Levantine princes expounded the mysteriousnesse of it. 1664Evelyn Sylva xxii. 58 [The seeds of the Platanus] should be gather'd late in Autumn, and brought us from some more Levantine parts then Italy. 1784Cowper Task iii. 583 Those Ausonia claims, Levantine regions these. a1844Campbell Spectre Boat iii, Where Mount ætna lights the deep Levantine sea. 1897Daily News 23 Sept. 8/3, I must say that his [Bourbaki's] manner was very Levantine. 1900Speaker 3 Mar. 599/1 Even in the days of Thomas Cromwell a Duke of Norfolk would own Levantine merchantmen.
B. n.
1. An inhabitant or native of the Levant.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Levantines, the Natives or Inhabitants of the Levant, the Eastern People; also those that are employed on the Mediterranean. 1821Byron Juan iii. xxix, The Pyrrhic dance so martial, To which the Levantines are very partial. 1844Kinglake Eöthen xviii. (1864) 221 Europeans settled in the East, and commonly called Levantines. 1897Daily News 23 Sept. 8/3 A Levantine in blood, he [Bourbaki] instinctively understood how to appeal to the imagination of the Arabs.
2. [F. levantine.] (See quot. 1882.)
1831Porter Silk Manuf. 298 Levantine is a stout, close⁓made, and twilled silk. 1835Court Mag. VI. 1/2 Tigrine is a levantine of the very richest kind, spotted like a tiger's skin. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework, Levantine, a very rich-faced stout twilled black silk material, exceedingly soft, and of excellent wear. Its face and back show different shades; if the former be a blue-black, the latter will be a jet and vice versâ. |