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LEV'EE, n. [L. levo.]
The act of
rising.
" The sun's levee." Gray. A morning assembly or reception of
visitors, -- in distinction from a soirée, or evening
assembly; a matinée; hence, also, any general or
somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or
evening; as, the president's levee.
* In England a ceremonious day reception, when attended by both ladies and gentlemen, is called a drawing-room. To attend the levee
or levees of.
He levees all the great. Young. An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along
the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
[U.
S.] To keep within a
channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.
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