Levkas

[lef-kahs]

noun

1. an island in the Ionian group, off the W coast of Greece. 114 sq. mi. (295 sq. km).

Levkás

/ lɛfˈkæs /

noun

1. Italian name: Santa Maura. a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, in the Ionian Islands. Pop: 20 751 (2001). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)

Example Sentences

He was an immigrant boy from the Greek island of Levkas, had begun life in the U.S. as a brush-flipper and rag-flapper in a Kansas City shoeshine parlor operated by one George Giokaris.

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He is now in the active practice of law in Greenville, Miss. His first book of poems, "Sappho in Levkas and Other Poems", was published in 1915, and his second, "In April Once", in 1920.

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