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levant🔊

A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet.

To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.

💬 Quotations
In a mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the lurch.
He died of a Tuesday. Got the run. Levanted with the cash of a few ads.

(heraldry) Rising, of an animal.

(law) Rising or having risen from rest; said of cattle.

(poetic) Eastern.

📑 Synonyms: oriental eastern
💬 Quotations
Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.