Levantineadj.n.
/lɪˈvantɪn//ˈlɛvəntɪn/ 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.
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [adjective]
eastereOE
easteOE
eastwardeOE
easterlyOE
eastenlOE
easterna1398
orientalc1425
orient?c1450
Levant1601
easternly?a1606
eastwardlya1613
Levantine1649
Eoan1820
eastwards1838
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [adjective] > Near East
Levant1503
Levantine1649
Near Eastern1906
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [adjective] > to or from specific place
Levantine1900
South-Spain1924
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. 43 This star did not trouble Herod till the Levantine princes expounded the mysteriousnesse of it.
1664 J. Evelyn 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.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 583 Those Ausonia claims, Levantine regions these.
a1844 Campbell Spectre Boat iii Where Mount Ætna lights the deep Levantine sea.
1897 Daily News 23 Sept. 8/3 I must say that his [Bourbaki's] manner was very Levantine.
1900 Speaker 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.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Levant > [noun]
Levantian1660
Levantisk1660
Levanter1668
Levantine1706
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Levantines, the Natives or Inhabitants of the Levant, the Eastern People; also those that are employed on the Mediterranean.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xxix. 17 The Pyrrhic dance so martial, To which the Levantines are very partial.
1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xviii. 287 Europeans settled in the East, and commonly called Levantines.
1897 Daily News 23 Sept. 8/3 A Levantine in blood, he [Bourbaki] instinctively understood how to appeal to the imagination of the Arabs.
2. [ < French levantine.] (See quot. 1882.)
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from silk > [noun] > types of > twilled
Levantine1831
silk serge1844
surah1873
serge du soy1876
messaline1909
1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 298 Levantine is a stout, close~made, and twilled silk.
1835 Court Mag. 6 1/2 Tigrine is a levantine of the very richest kind, spotted like a tiger's skin.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 324/2 Levantine. A very rich-faced, stout twilled black silk material, exceedingly soft, and of excellent wear. Its face and back show respectively different shades; if the former be a blue-black, the latter will be a jet, and vice versâ.
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