Why this word is great
LEVANTER — [Noun] An easterly wind blowing from the Mediterranean through the Straits of Gibraltar to the Atlantic, or a person who absconds to avoid paying a debt. From Levant (the eastern Mediterranean) + -er (agentive suffix); for the wind sense, compare French faire voile en Levant ('to sail eastward'). For the absconder sense, from levant ('to flee') + -er. Unlike 'sirocco' (a scorching, dust-choked Saharan gust) or 'absconder' (a generic fugitive), 'levanter' is either a crisp, salt-edged breeze or a man slipping into the night with unpaid bills in his wake. It is the white sails of a yacht tilting toward the Atlantic, the creak of a tavern door left swinging after a hurried exit, the way dawn light spills over Gibraltar while someone’s ledger remains unbalanced—a word equally at home in the mariner’s log and the creditor’s curse.