Levantine

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• The next weekend, we hire a taxi to take us to Byblos, farther up the Levantine coast.

  Academic text (2010)

• Bosnians, Albanians, Greeks, Jews, Armenians, and the Levantine culture of the late Empire are the subjects of numerous theses, conferences, seminars, exhibitions, photograph collections, and publications.

  Academic text (2000)

• We visit the Spanish and Levantine schole, which have been restored to their original splendor.

  Fiction book (1999)

• But me: big nose, Levantine complexion, a certain sardonic set to the lips.

  Academic text (2012)

• Ancient Levantine mythologies and moral rectitude were not part of the rationale.

  Blog text (15)

• The young man entered in a delectably furtive Levantine fashion: he obviously wasn't accustomed to western hotels on this side of town.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The goal of Venetian maritime traffic was to reach Levantine ports, and the sale of the wares that the galleys transported depended on the vast market in the countries under Turkish rule.

  Academic text (1993)

• The southern climate, Georgian temperament, and fragmented ethnic mix give Tbilisi an almost Levantine feel.

• His father affected the mannerisms of a Levantine effendi.

• The Oylum mound knuckles up from the heart of the Fertile Crescent—the ancient Levantine temperate zone where modernity was born.

Synonyms

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Middle Eastern

vsLevantine

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About the Middle East, its people, language, or culture

is narrower, applying to a specific subregion and its inhabitants

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Etymology