volante
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of volante
1785–95; < Italian: volant
Example Sentences
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The banquet room was equipped with an ingenious table volante, which could be lowered into the cellar, raised up again laden with delicacies.
From Time Magazine Archive
More frequently, however, even this appendage is not seen, and they ride in the Paseos and streets with their heads entirely uncovered, save by the sheltering hood of the volante.
From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Maturin Murray Ballou
It is the mode of stopping a volante, calling a waiter, attracting the attention of a friend, or calling the notice of a stranger.
From To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana
Indeed, the people have little use for sidewalks, for they drive almost universally about town in place of walking, being thus borne about in that peculiar vehicle, a volante.
From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Maturin Murray Ballou
The public vehicle called a victoria is a sort of four-wheeled calash, and it has entirely superseded the volante for city use.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Maturin Murray Ballou
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