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  • noun Plural form of levant.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of levant.

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Examples

  • They live abhorred and die respected; leaving all their heaped-up wealth to some charitable institution, the secretary of which levants with it eventually to the United States.

    Some Private Views James Payn 1864

  • Further, in the more and more unfinished parts of the book, she levants for a time with the young duke, quits him, becomes a professional hetaera in Paris, but never takes any fancy to the business of her avocation till she meets an all-conquering criminal, Valbayre. [

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

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