volant

• They were terrible looking fellows, clad in broad-skirted gaberdines, of that curious colored cloth called thunder and lightning,—and bore as a standard three devil's darning-needles, volant , in a flame-colored field Hard by was the tent of the men of battle from the marshy borders of the Waale-Boght and the country thereabouts. —  Washington Irving
• For example she would say you really don't look properly volant, and you would say Properly what And she would say feathers, uplift, flapping, sky, winging Flightworthy And she would say 'Whatever', crossly That's what volant means Uh-uh, Garfield. —  Geis of the Gargoyle
• It has a soft, layered, volant skirt and a gorgeous, pleated silk ribbon that decorates the waistline and the bustline.
• F. (Crapaud-volant, popular.) —  Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
• 'Crapaud-volant' is ugly, but descriptive, the brown speckling of the bird being indeed toadlike, though wonderful and beautiful. —  Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds

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