Definition of "levants" [levants]

• Plural form of levant. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of levant. (verb)

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• "They live abhorred and die respected; leaving all their heaped-up wealth to some charitable institution, the secretary of which levants with it eventually to the United States."
• "Further, in the more and more unfinished parts of the book, she levants for a time with the young duke, quits him, becomes a professional hetaera in Paris, but never takes any fancy to the business of her avocation till she meets an all-conquering criminal, Valbayre. ["