levanter

English Noun

Definition

An Easterly wind that blows from the Mediterranean, through the straits of Gibraltar to the Atlantic.

Etymology

* (wind): Levant + -er; Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), figuratively: to flee eastward, literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean Sea and southern France. * (person): levant + -er