lavolt, lavolta

[Ital. la volta the turn.] An old Italian dance, much practiced in the days of Queen Elizabeth. It seems to have been the pre cursor of the modern waltz, as it is thus described by Sir John Davies, in the Orchestra (1622): "Yet there is one the most delightful kind- A lofty jumping or a leaping round, Where arm in arm two dancers are entwined, And whirl themselves with strict embracements bound, And still their feet an anapæst do sound, An anapæst is all their music's song, Whose first two feet are short, the third is long." *la-vol-ta, v. i . [LAVOLT, 8.] "How he sallies and lavoltas ." - Nashe : Lenten Stuffe. la-vol-ta-teër, s. [Eng. lavolta ; t connective; suff. -eer.] One who dances the lavolta; a dancer. *lāv-our, s . [LAVER (1), s.]