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Levant

noun

A heavy morocco often used in bookbinding. Synonym: Levant morocco.

The former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.

verb

Run off without paying a debt.

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... part of the 16th century, German, Italian, and Dutch botanists and travelers brought back from the Levant considerable information regarding the new plant and the beverage. In 1614 enterprising Dutch traders began to examine into the possibilities of coffee cultivation and coffee trading. In 1616 a coffee plant was successfully transported from Mocha to Holland. In 1658 the Dutch started ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

... red-roofed houses. It is a good light and a good hour in which to enter Bruges, that city of the past. Once the city was greater than Antwerp; and up the Rege came the commerce of the East, merchants from the Levant, traders in jewels and silks. Now the tall houses wait for tenants, and the streets have a deserted air. After nightfall, as we walked in the middle of the roughly paved streets, meeting few people, ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... directly for a distant seaport where they heard of a ship bound for the Levant, in which they embarked and proceeded ...

— The Old English Baron • Clara Reeve

... came for me to go to sea again, and I was ordered to join the frigate Iphigenie, of which my old captain, M. de Parseval, had taken command, as full lieutenant, and we started for the Levant station. The recollection of a very extraordinary accident which occurred during this cruise remains with me. We were in the Archipelago, off the Island of Andros. I had just come off the first night watch, at midnight, and had got into bed, when I heard ...

— Memoirs • Prince De Joinville

... that the bulk of her wealth consisted of obligations and shares in the Levant and Russian Companies, her mother having been the only daughter and heiress of Peter Ford the great Levantine and Oriental merchant; her marriage with the proud Earl of Dover having caused no small measure of comment in Court circles in ...

— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy

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