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n. - (formerly) a native or inhabitant of the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon and Syria and Israel

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  • The Levantine coast
  • Ali Baba and the Envious Sisters, suggesting that the Frenchman had heard these paramythia in Levantine coffee-houses and had inserted them into his unequalled corpus...
  • When Lord Levant quitted the country and this neighborhood, in which the tradesmen still deplore him, No. 56, known as Levantine
  • (the 'Levantine' and the 'Petrel') have been accepted instead of wooden vessels, on Mr. Cunard's Halifax and Bermuda line.
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