levant

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Louis Leroy published a review of the first exhibition in Le Charivari describing Monet's Impression: soleil levant, and stating that 'a preliminary drawing for a wallpaper pattern is more finished than this seascape '.

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  1. intransitive verb Chiefly British To leave hurriedly or in secret to avoid unpaid debts.

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  1. Possibly from Spanish levantar (el campo), to lift, break (camp), from Vulgar Latin *levantāre, from Latin levāns, levant-, present participle of levāre, to raise; see lever.

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  1. from Old French levant, French levant, adjective, rising, from Latin leran(t-)s, present participle of levare, raise, reflexive sc levare, rise, from levis, light, not heavy (whence also ult. English lever, levity, levee, levee, levy, levy, alleviate, allege, elevate, relevant, relieve, relief, etc.), akin to English light, q. v. Hence levant, levant.
  2. = Dutch levant = German levante = Danish Swedish levant, from French levant = Spanish Portuguese Italian levante, from Middle Latin levan(t-)s, the sunrise, the east, the orient, properly adjective, rising, applied to the sun: see levant.
  3. from Spanish levantar, raise, move, remove (levantar la casa, break up house, levantar el campo, break up camp), from levar, lievar, now llevar, raise, carry, from Latin levare, raise: see levant, n.
  4. from levant, v.
 

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