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volage

volage adjective: fickle, capricious, reckless.

Adjective

volage (comparative more volage, superlative most volage)

  1. (archaic) Fickle, capricious, reckless.
    • When Phoebus' wife had sent for her leman,
      Anon they wroughten all their lust volage.c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Manciple's Prologue and Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales

Forms of volage

comparativemore volage
superlativemost volage

Origin of volage

From Old French volage, from Latin volāticus.

Questions about volage

What does volage mean?
Volage means fickle, capricious, reckless.
What part of speech is volage?
Volage is an adjective.

Words near volage in the dictionary

  1. voladoras
  2. voladors
  3. volae
  4. volaemia
  5. volaemic
  6. volage
  7. volalkali
  8. Volans
  9. volant
  10. volant piece
  11. volant pieces

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