At 11:14 AM +0100 3/23/07, rglan wrote:
At 8:38 AM +0100 23/3/07, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On the contrary. It means "turn page", and implies it is not the end.
Turn page *quickly*
F f. It. volta turn, fem. past part. of volgere turn f. L volvere roll
Same root as the Elizabethan dance, the Volta or Lavolta, a fast
galliard during which the gentleman grabs the lady by the bottom of
her busk and twirls her around. (Looks almost pornographic in the
paintings, but it was all in good fun, and the busks were so
stiffened with whalebone stays that he couldn't have gotten away with
anything anyhow!!!)
John
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