volte-face
noun/vɒltˈfæs/
Etymology
Borrowed from French volte-face.
- borrowed from volte-face
Definitions
A reversal of attitude, policy, or principle.
- Psychoanalysis has sprung many surprises on us, performed more than one volte face before our indignant eyes.
A dramatic change in mood or tone.
- Shakespeare often used volte-faces in the rhyming couplets at the end of his sonnets.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for volte-face. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA