Levantine

[lev-uhn-tahyn, -teen, li-van-tin, -tahyn]

Le·van·tine

[lev-uhn-tahyn, -teen, li-van-tin, -tahyn]
adjective
1.
of or pertaining to the Levant.
noun
2.
a native of the Levant.

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Levantine is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1640–50; Levant + -ine1

Lev·an·tin·ism, noun
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levantine (ˈlɛvənˌtaɪn)
 
n
a cloth of twilled silk

Levantine (ˈlɛvənˌtaɪn)
 
adj
1.  of or relating to the Levant
 
n
2.  (esp formerly) an inhabitant of the Levant

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