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Webster 1913 Edition

Lavolta

{

La-volt′

,

La-vol′ta

, }

Noun.

[It.

la volta

the turn, turning, whirl. Cf.

of a horse,

.]

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

Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Lavolta

LAVOL'TA

, An old dance in which was much turning and capering.