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Definition of Levanting
1. levant [v] - See also: levant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levanting
Literary usage of Levanting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kelly's Directory of the Leather Trades. (1880)
"Pole levanting Machines. Our Patent Levant, Wai. ... levanting Wheels. Patent Fluffing
Machines (Whole Hide). Butt. Bend and Offal Rollers. ..."
2. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
""Say they're levanting, Buchan," said Miller, who liked his joke, and would not
have objected to be called Voltairian. " Never mind. ..."
3. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (1906)
"Her unfortunate affliction precluded her from all hope of levanting with a lover.
It would be impossible to run away with a lady who required three servants ..."
4. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"Say they 're levanting, Buchan," said Miller, who liked his joke, and would not
have objected to be called Voltairian. " Never mind. ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"An engagement at '201. a week to act at Amsterdam and the Hague with a man named
Au- brey was disastrous, the speculator levanting he played Halbert ..."
6. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"While he realized the nee if he was to succeed in levanting with the gold, the
tenderfoot had been too long a slave to his creature comforts to face another ..."
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