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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A region on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea north of the Arabian Peninsula and south of Turkey, usually including the area of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria.
  • noun A heavy, coarse-grained morocco leather often used in bookbinding.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After the Levant.]

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