volta
noun
turn; time (used in phrases).
voltas
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pluralof volta.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But Smith says they are fundamentally a “formalist”, who loves to “geek out” over sonnet crowns and voltas.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2020
As the scholar Roland Greene writes, although the sonnet was “practically a technology for representing voltas or turns of all psychic sorts,” Lock’s cycle “refuses invention to a degree almost unprecedented at the time.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2019
The roundels include cartas, motes, voltas, cantigas, trovas, pastorals and endechas.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
