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
The picturesque volante, once as essentially Cuban as the gondola is Venetian, has entirely disappeared, at all events from the streets of the capital.
From Cuba Past and Present by Davey, Richard
"We'll just finish the volante, then we'll go."
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de
As I sat in the parlor in the early morning, Mrs. Walters en blouse volante and all échevelée, came in to tell me of Mr. Lobdell's misfortunes.
From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Dawson, Sarah Morgan
We have said that the Creole ladies never stir abroad except in the national volante, and whatever their domestic habits may be, they are certainly, in this respect, good house-keepers.
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 Ballou, Maturin Murray
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