volant

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F. (Crapaud-volant, popular.)

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  1. adjective Flying or capable of flying.
  2. adjective Moving quickly or nimbly; agile.
  3. adjective Heraldry Depicted with the wings extended as in flying.

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  • 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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  1. Latin volāns, volant-, present participle of volāre, to fly. Sense 3, from French, from Old French, present participle of voler, to fly, from Latin volāre.

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  1. from French volant = Spanish Portuguese Italian volante, from Latin volan(t-)s, present participle of volare (later Italian volarc = Spanish Portuguese volar = French voler), fly. From the same Latin verb are also ult. English volage, volatile, volery, volet, volley, avolate, etc.
 

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