levantine

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My first was an open skirt of the palest pink levantine, shot with white and the deepest rose-color (it was like a gown made of strawberries and cream), the folds of which, as the light fell upon them, produced the most beautiful shades of shifting hues possible.

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  1. Eastern; Oriental. They [the seeds of Platanus] should be gathered late in Autumn, and brought us from some more levantine parts than Italy. Evelyn, Sylva, xxii.
  2. [capitalized] Of or pertaining to the Levant.
  3. Designating a particular kind of silk cloth. See II., 3.

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  • The curtains were in red levantine, that hung from the ceiling and bulged out too much towards the bell-shaped bed-side; and nothing in the world was so lovely as her brown head and white skin standing out against this purple colour, when, with a movement of shame, she crossed her bare arms, hiding her face in her hands The warm room, with its discreet carpet, its gay ornaments, and its calm light, seemed made for the intimacies of passion We are told what happened in that room. —  The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert
  • The curtains were in red levantine, that hung from the ceiling and bulged out too much towards the bell-shaped bedside; and nothing in the world was so lovely as her brown head and white skin standing out against this purple colour, when, with a movement of shame, she crossed her bare arms, hiding her face in her hands The warm room, with its discreet carpet, its gay ornaments, and its calm light, seemed made for the intimacies of passion. —  Madame Bovary
  • My first was an open skirt of the palest pink levantine, shot with white and the deepest rose-color (it was like a gown made of strawberries and cream), the folds of which, as the light fell upon them, produced the most beautiful shades of shifting hues possible. —  Records of a Girlhood
  • You will see how smart I shall look in my pretty dress of blue levantine, that I only wear on —  Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02
  • A tiny Valenciennes cap, with flaps and flap-band, of half peasant fashion, decked with rose-colored ribbons, and stuck a little backward upon bands of beautiful fair hair, surrounded her fresh and piquant face; a robe of gray levantine, and a cambric neck-kerchief, fastened to her bosom by a large tuft of rose-colored ribbons, displayed her figure elegantly rounded; a hollands apron, white as snow, trimmed below by three large hems, surmounted by a Vandyke-row, encircled her waist, which was as round and flexible as a reed; her short, plain sleeves, edged with bone lace, allowed her plump arms to be seen, which her long Swedish gloves, reaching to the elbow, defended from the rigor of the cold. —  The Wandering Jew — Volume 02
 

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  1. = French levantin (= Portuguese Spanish Italian levantino), pertaining to the Levant (feminine levantine, a silk cloth), from levant, the Levant: see levant, n.
 

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