levantine

"There, get on as fast as you can, dears; run, girls, and don't stop for me, your beautiful dresses will be quite spoilt; never mind me, for my levantine is a French silk, and won't spot."

Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

The whole idea of a Jewish state, especially one in the levantine “homeland” makes no sense without reference to the nationalist ideologies released after the French Revolution.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Common Intellectual Roots of Fascism and Radical Islamism: 2007

The whole idea of a Jewish state, especially one in the levantine “homeland” makes no sense without reference to the nationalist ideologies released after the French Revolution.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Common Intellectual Roots of Fascism and Radical Islamism: 2007

Madame Grandet was attired habitually in a gown of greenish levantine silk, endeavoring to make it last nearly a year; with it she wore a large kerchief of white cotton cloth, a bonnet made of plaited straws sewn together, and almost always a black-silk apron.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

I will crusade on with the parent ship, weather prophetting, far away from those green hills, a station, Ireton tells me, bonofide for keeltappers, now to come to the midnight middy on this levantine ponenter.

Finnegans Wake 2006

The curtains were in red levantine, that hung from the ceiling and bulged out too much towards the bell-shaped bedside; and nothing in the world was so lovely as her brown head and white skin standing out against this purple colour, when, with a movement of shame, she crossed her bare arms, hiding her face in her hands.

Madame Bovary 2003

At the head stood aunt Hannah, cold and solemn, but very attentive, just as they all remembered her from their birth up, with the same rusty dress of levantine silk falling in scant folds down her person, and the same little slate-colored shawl folded over her bosom, only with a trifle more grey in her hair, and a new wrinkle or so creeping athwart her forehead.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

The old negress wore a black levantine gown, open in front, and gathered about the waist by a silken cord; a red and yellow turban, from underneath which escaped a few frosted locks, and a white cambric neckerchief that fell carelessly over her shoulders, and almost hid her withered, scrawny neck.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

He had just left the Mediterranean station, and there still abode with him a certain languid levantine softness of voice and manner; when he came in to dinner, out of the wild weather, the moral contrast with the turmoil outside was quite refreshing.

Border and Bastille 1851

My first was an open skirt of the palest pink levantine, shot with white and the deepest rose-color (it was like a gown made of strawberries and cream), the folds of which, as the light fell upon them, produced the most beautiful shades of shifting hues possible.

Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851