volante

How to use volante in a sentence

• The public vehicle called a victoria is a sort of four-wheeled calash, and it has entirely superseded the volante for city use.

  Due South or Cuba Past and Present | Maturin M. Ballou

• Page 292, Footnote 129: 'quas ivolante' corrected to 'quasi volante'.

  Feudal England -- Historical Studies On The Eleventh And Twelfth Centuries | J.H. Round

• He wears a double breastplate, of which the outer piece is called volante.

  The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain, Volume I (of 3) | Leonard Williams

• The most common carriage is the volante, but there are some carriages in the English style, with servants in livery on the box.

  To Cuba and Back | Richard Henry Dana

• Here and there we pass a private volante, distinguished by rich silver mountings and postilions in livery.

  To Cuba and Back | Richard Henry Dana