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单词 cloth of levant
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cloth 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.
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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.
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