Lavolta

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:49:35

La*volt" (?), La*vol"ta (?), n. [It.la volta the turn, turning, whirl. Cf. Volt of a horse, Volta.]

An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound.

Shak.

 

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