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 Richard Davey
The volante was sometimes splendidly decorated with costly silver platings and rich stuffs.
From Cuba Past and Present by Richard Davey
I have taken a fancy for the strange-looking two-horse volante.
From To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana
The other Angel of deliverance is the volante, with its tireless horses and calesero, who seems fitted and screwed to the saddle, which he never leaves.
From A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe
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