volage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French volage, from Latin volāticus.
Adjective[edit]
volage (comparative more volage, superlative most volage)
- (archaic) Fickle, capricious, reckless.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Manciple's Prologue and Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:
- When Phoebus' wife had sent for her leman,
Anon they wroughten all their lust volage.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French volage, from Latin volāticus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
volage (plural volages)
Further reading[edit]
- “volage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French[edit]
Adjective[edit]
volage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular volage)
Descendants[edit]
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