lavolta

noun

another word for volta

Word Origin

C16: from Italian la volta the turn; see volta

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Examples from the Web for lavolta

Historical Examples

Yes, ladies, you have been dancing the lavolta of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries without being aware of it.
The Lancashire Witches
William Harrison Ainsworth
The passamezzo, passy-measure or half-measure was a popular Elizabethan dance, like the coranto and lavolta.
Days of the Discoverers
L. Lamprey
The Lavolta was fashionable in the 16th century and was the delight of the Valois court.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9
Various

lavolta

Word Origin

Examples from the Web for lavolta

Historical Examples

Yes, ladies, you have been dancing the lavolta of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries without being aware of it.

The passamezzo, passy-measure or half-measure was a popular Elizabethan dance, like the coranto and lavolta.

The Lavolta was fashionable in the 16th century and was the delight of the Valois court.