Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical call or strain intended to arouse or excite; a blast of a trumpet to awaken soldiers in the morning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
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- noun obsolete A
trumpet call forrousing soldiers ; areveille .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 Anna Green Winslow 1881
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Optima injuriae ultio est oblivio, efficit enim ut animum levet, nec magis laedat, quam si facta non esset.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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Optima injuriae ultio est oblivio, efficit enim ut animum levet, nec magis laedat, quam si facta non esset.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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Edward I. attaints his justices, setts enquiry of peace-breakers, and of the usury of levet, £85 — — expels tbe lew* from England, ibid. — — summoned to Paris by Philip K. of Frimce, 287
The chronicle of Iohn Hardyng Grafton, Richard, d. 1572? 1812
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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 Alice Morse Earle 1881
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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 George Henry Borrow 1842
chained_bear commented on the word levet
"the blast of a trumpet."
October 9, 2008
qms commented on the word levet
A biker to feel well-endowed
Requires an engine that's loud.
At daybreak he'll rev it -
The neighborhood levet -
Then flee from the rage of the crowd.
October 21, 2016