levantine
See also: Levantine
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lə.vɑ̃.tin/
Adjective
levantine
- feminine singular of levantin
Noun
levantine f (plural levantines)
- (textiles, dated) silk fabric
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Les rideaux de levantine rouge, qui descendaient du plafond, se cintraient trop bas vers le chevet évasé; […] .
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- (weaponry, historical) a type of dagger
Further reading
- “levantine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Italian
Adjective
levantine
- feminine plural of levantino