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The countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire). examples
plural Levants
An easterly wind, generally in the western Mediterranean Sea examples
A type of leather. quotations examples
[I]t was bound by G. Levitsky […] in turquoise Levant, stamped back and front with the Crosby crest in gold.
1976, Geoffrey Wolff, Black Sun, New York Review of Books, published 2003, page 173