Le-vănt’er, n.
n. [Eng. levant. See supra.]
Sense 1. A strong easterly wind in the Mediterranean.
Sense 2. One who bets at a horse-race, and runs away without paying the wager lost; hence, one who runs away disgracefully. [Cant. Eng.]
No prelusive murmurs had run before this wild levanter of change. De Quincey.