levet

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On which he blew as strong a levet

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  1. A musical call or strain intended to arouse or excite; a blast of a trumpet to awaken soldiers in the morning. Come, sirs, a quaint levet, To waken our brave general! then to our labor. Fletcher, Double Marriage, ii. 1. Waked very early; and when it was time, did call up Will, and we rose, and musique (with a bandore for the base) did give me a levett. Pepys, Diary, I. 335.

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  • And we find in Judge Sewall's diary that he was greeted on New Year's morn with a levet, or blast of trumpets, under his window; and he celebrated the opening of the eighteenth century with a very poor poem of his own 96 png 124 composition, which he caused to be recited through Boston streets by the town-crier Note 27. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Diary of Anna Green Winslow, by Anna Green Winslow
  • On which he blew as strong a levet —  Hudibras
  • Hellede, som de kaldes, have levet fast laenger, og vaeret mandeligere storre staerkere og hoiere end den gemene Mand er, som nu lever paa denne Dag. " —  Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces
  • Judge Sewall, as rigid and stern a Puritan as any of the earliest days, records with some pride his being greeted with a levet, or blast of trumpets, under his window, early on the morning of January 1, 1697; while he himself celebrated the opening of the new century with a very poor poem of his own making, which he caused to be cried or recited throughout the town of Boston by the town bellman. —  Customs and Fashions in Old New England
  • New Year's morn with a levet, or blast of trumpets, under his window; and he celebrated the opening of the eighteenth century with —  Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771
 

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  1. from French lever, raise, from Latin levare: see levant.
 

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