levetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈlɛvɪt/

名詞

levet (plural levets)

1. (obsolete) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:

     First he that led the cavalcate,
     Wore a sow-gelder's flagellet,
     On which he blew as strong a levet.

参照

“levet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.