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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 505 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEVANT (from the See also:

French use of the participle of See also:lever, tocoastlands of the eastern Mediterranean See also:Sea from See also:Greece to See also:Egypt, or, in a more restricted and commoner sense, to the Mediterranean coastlands of See also:Asia See also:Minor and See also:Syria. In the 16th and 17th centuries the See also:term " High Levant" was used of the Far See also:East. The phrase " to levant," meaning to See also:abscond, especially of one who runs away leaving debts unpaid, particularly of a betting See also:man or gambler, is taken from the Span. levantar, to lift or break up, in such phrases as levantar la casa, to break up a See also:household, or el campo, to break See also:camp.

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