Talk:levant

Origin of Levant
Oxford dictionary is wrong: French "faire voile en Levant" ‎doesn't mean "set sail for the Levant". That would be written "faire voile pour le Levant".

French "faire voile en Levant" means “to sail eastward”, (or figuratively: to flee eastward), literally: set the sail with the Levant wind (see wikipedia), an easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean Sea and southern France. Ref from 1616 "faire voile en Levant = to sayle eastward": https://books.google.com/books?hl=fr&id=TlsqAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=to+sayle+eastward 89.139.53.113 14:04, 8 August 2015 (UTC)