levanter
levanter · levanters
An Easterly wind that blows from the Mediterranean, through the straits of Gibraltar…An Easterly wind that blows from the Mediterranean, through the straits of Gibraltar to the Atlantic.
Meaning
2 sensesAn Easterly wind that blows from the Mediterranean, through the straits of Gibraltar to the Atlantic.
an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area
One who levants, or absconds to avoid paying a debt.
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
* (wind): Levant + -er; Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), figurat* (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.
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