La-vōlt’ or La-vōl'tā, n.

n. [It. la volta, the turn, turning, whirl. Cf. VOLT and VOLTA.] An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the man turned the woman round several times, and then assisted her in making a high spring or bound. Halliwell. “And teach lavoltas high and swift corantos.” Shak.

A lofty jumping, or a leaping round, Where arm in arm two dancers are entwined, And whirl themselves with strict embracements round, And still their feet an anapest do sound. Sir J. Davies.