volante
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of volante
1785–95; < Italian: volant
Example Sentences
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Al final del evento, Raquel Regalado se puso al volante de su Hyundai Elantra y salió conduciendo ella misma.
From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2015
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 volante comes for us next day, with Roqu�, brightest of all living caleseros, fixed in his boots and saddle.
From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward
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
The volante, that one vehicle of Cuba, has been several times referred to in the foregoing pages.
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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