LEVANT'

Domain	Definition
Literature	Levant' He has levanted - i.e. made off, decamped. A levanter is one who makes a bet, and runs away without paying his bet if he loses. (Spanish "levantar el campo, la casa," to break up the camp or house; our leave. In the Slang Dictionary, p. 214, we are told that "it was formerly the custom, when a person was in pecuniary difficulties, to give out that he was gone to the Levant." Hence, when one lost a bet and could not or would not pay, he was said to have levanted- i.e. gone to the Levant. Of no historic value. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: LEVANT'

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "'-a-e-l-n-t-v"
	-1 letter: levant.
	-2 letters: laten, leant, navel, valet, venal.
	-3 letters: ante, elan, etna, lane, late, lave, lean, lent, leva, nave, neat, tael, tale, teal, tela, vale, vane, veal, vela, vena, vent.
	-4 letters: ale, alt, ane, ant, ate, ave, eat, eta, lat, lav, lea, let, lev, nae, net, tae, tan, tav, tea, tel, ten, van, vat, vet.
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