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volte

/ vɒlt /

noun

  1. See volt
    a variant spelling of volt 2


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It leaves out only the actual reason for her abrupt, 11th-hour volte-face.

Stop thrusts and hits with a half volte would be useful to you.

They turned tail with screams and fled to a distance, more than one falling in the sudden volte-face.

She destroyed whatever chance there was of a sudden volte-face on its part—and oh, the glorious uncertainty of this class of cat!

Morley speaks of the Volte, and says it is characterised by 'rising and leaping,' and is of the same 'measure' as a coranto.

And for all their talk of freedom, Lennan could see the volte-face his friends would be making, if they only knew.

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