Lexicographical Neighbors of Levanters
Literary usage of Levanters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1827)
"But as the levanters are said to continue sometimes a fortnight, it appears most
probable that the storm in question blew generally from the Eastward. ..."
2. Travels, Or, Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant by Thomas Shaw (1757)
"... by (what indeed it has only in common with other levanters) either the ha-
... levanters, that laid ban ly the зд^сд {fogy gj-g of a long continuance, ..."
3. The Physical Geography and Meteorology of the North Atlantic: Together with by William Henry Rosser, James Frederick Imray (1869)
"Westward of the meridian of Tarifa the levanters are very dry and clear, ...
The most lasting levanters set in gradually, in which case they do not reach ..."
4. Drake and the Tudor Navy: With a History of the Rise of England as a by Julian Stafford Corbett (1898)
"The leading Spaniards seem to have been chiefly levanters and some of ...
they say, admiral of the levanters, in his flagship the ..."
5. Papers Relating to the Navy During the Spanish War, 1585-1587 by Julian Stafford Corbett (1898)
"At Cartagena, within the Straits, were six great levanters from Sicily, whence
they had brought Pon Diego Pimentel and his famous Sicilian tertia of ..."
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