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volture 322
volture [Fr], carriage; vehicle.
voiturier [Fr], carrier; wagoner; driver.
voix [Fr], voice; tone; vote; suffrage. —aux voix!, put it to the vote!
divide! —voix céleste. Same as vox ANGELICA. —voix criarde, shrill
voice. —voix larmoyante, tearful voice.
Vokal [Ger; pi. Vokale], vowel.
volador [Sp], a Californian flying fish.
volaille [Fr], poultry; fowl.
volant [Fr; fern, volante], adj. flying; floating; η. flounce (of a dress);
sail (of a windmill).
volante [It], flying; with light rapidity: music.
volata [It], lit., a flight; a series of rapid notes embellishing a melody:
music.
volat hora per orbem [L], time flies through the world.
vol-au-vent [Fr], lit., flight in the wind; a shell of puff paste filled with
a ragout: cookery.
volée [Fr], flight; volley; discharge; shower; peal (of bells).
volens et potens {or valens) [L], willing and able.
volente Deo [L], God willing.
volenti non fit iniuria [L], no injustice {or injury) is done to a consenting
party: law.
voleur [Fr], thief. —au voleur!, stop thief!
Volk der Dichter und Denker [Ger], nation of poets and thinkers (the
Germans).
Volkskammer [Ger], chief legislature of the German Democratic Republic.
Volkslied [Ger; pi. Volkslieder], folk song; popular ballad.
vollstimmig [Ger], for full orchestra or chorus; polyphonic: music.
voló golondrino [Sp], the swallow has flown; the opportunity has fled.
volo non valeo [L], I am willing but unable.
volonté [Fr], will. —à volonté, as one wishes. —dernières volontés, last
will and testament.
volentieri [It], willingly; gladly.
volost [Russ], a district including several villages; rural district; in Soviet
Russia, a rural soviet.
volta [It; pi. volte], turn; turning; time. —due volte, twice. —prima
volta, first time. —seconda volta, second time. —una volta, once: all
music.
volte-face [Fr], reversal {or change) of policy; a facing about: lit. & fig.
volteggiando [It], crossing the hands in playing the piano: music.
volti [It], turn over. —volti subito, turn (the page) quickly {abbr. v.s.):
music.
voltigeur [Fr], lit., a vaulter; rifleman; light infantryman: Fr. hut.
voluntas habetur pro facto [L], the will is taken for the deed.
voluptates corporis [L], the pleasures of the body; sensual pleasures.