levanter

Definitions

Examples

• Blount took an opportunity to whisper into Raleigh's ear, "This storm came like a levanter in the Mediterranean."

• Day broke with a "Levanter," and the heavy clouds hanging about rendered any distant view a matter of difficulty.

• The night was dark and rainy, and a Levanter—that wind which brings cold and misery and illness—was blowing fiercely.

• The lee side of these heights is a great deal worse than the west side of Gibraltar Rock while the strongest Levanter is blowing.

• The wind which blew when St Paul was shipwrecked, now called Levanter, from its violence.