levanter

Etymology

 * ; Compare 🇨🇬, figuratively: to flee eastward, literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean Sea and southern France.

Noun

 * 1) An Easterly wind that blows from the Mediterranean, through the straits of Gibraltar to the Atlantic.
 * 2) One who levants, or absconds to avoid paying a debt.

Translations

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