"levanter" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: levanters [plural]
Etymology: * (wind): 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. * (person): levant + -er Etymology templates: {{sense|wind}} (wind):, {{suffix|en|Levant|er}} Levant + -er, {{cog|fr|faire voile en Levant||to sail eastward}} French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), {{sense|person}} (person):, {{suffix|en|levant|er}} levant + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} levanter (plural levanters)
  1. An Easterly wind that blows from the Mediterranean, through the straits of Gibraltar to the Atlantic. Categories (topical): Wind Synonyms (wind): Levant Translations (an easterly wind): λεβάντες (levántes) [masculine] (Greek)
    Sense id: en-levanter-en-noun-Vc3wUgOE Disambiguation of Wind: 92 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 75 25 Disambiguation of 'wind': 100 0 Disambiguation of 'an easterly wind': 99 1
  2. One who levants, or absconds to avoid paying a debt.
    Sense id: en-levanter-en-noun-FDbOWqSk

Inflected forms

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