单词 | cloth of levant |
释义 | > as lemmascloth of Levant 1. Geography. †(a) The countries of the East. the High Levant = the far East (cf. high adj. 2). cloth of Levant = bezetta n. (see quot. 1558). Obsolete. (b) spec. The eastern part of the Mediterranean, with its islands and the countries adjoining. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [noun] Levant1497 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Far East > [noun] the High Levant1497 Far East1852 Farther East1876 Near North1935 the golden triangle1973 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > paints or colours > reddening reda1398 cloth of Levant1497 red leather1545 safflower1583 cheek-varnish1598 vermilion1600 rubric1650 rud1651 Spanish wool1678 French reda1680 saffranon1731 French rouge?1745 rouge1746 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 218 A viage to be made into the levaunt. 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount iv. f. 80 To make a kinde of cloth, called cloth of Leuant wherwith women vse to colour their faces. 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation iii. i. sig. G.viv The Hydrographers..haue chaunged the names, callyng the Leuant or Orient, East. The Ponent or Occident, West. 1599 R. Bodenham in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 99 My voiage to the Ilands of Candia and Chio in the Leuant. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Pp3 It is the vse of Chyna, and the Kingdomes of the High Leuant . View more context for this quotation 1688 London Gaz. No. 2320/3 Not to allow Pratique to any Ships coming from the Levant. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Levant, in Geography, signifies any Country situate to the East of us. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 453/1 Levant..is also commonly used..to designate the eastern or Asiatic shores of that sea [the Mediterranean]. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen v. 73 The Grecian race, against which you will be cautioned so carefully as soon as you touch the Levant. < as lemmas |
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