volante

• He plays harmonics with a vibrato (Paganini played a double shake in harmonics), and his staccato volante is developed to an astounding degree of perfection. —  Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday
• She was dressed in a loosely hanging purple calico garment of the mother Hubbard type--known as a volante amongst Louisiana Creoles; and on her head was knotted and fantastically twisted a bright tignon_. —  At Fault
• They had been driving round the estate--it was a large sugar one--in a volante, jogging and jolting, I doubt not, for the roads, if so they might be called, were execrable--a fine thing for the bile, as O'Driscoll observed The ladies looked as if their drive had agreed with them, for they were full of life and animation and courtesy and kindness. —  Hurricane Hurry
• Here they can see every one passing and be seen in return The volante is as worthy of a description as the gondola of Venice. —  The Three Lieutenants
• The words rapidamente_, brillante and volante (flying) have the same meaning as veloce 118. —  Music Notation and Terminology

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