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or Lavolta. (French, la volte.) A lively dance, in which was a good deal of jumping or capering, whence its name. Troilus says, “I cannot sing, nor heel the high lavolt” (iv. 4). It is thus described:
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 anapest do sound
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