levanter

Meaning

Noun

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

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Origin

  • 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.
  • levant + -er

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