volage

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adjective

Fickle, capricious, reckless.

OriginOld French volage ← Latin volāticus →
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Meanings

adjectivevolage (comparative more volage, superlative most volage)

comparative more volage · superlative most volage

  1. archaicFickle, 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

Origin

  1. Latinvolāticus
  2. Old Frenchvolage
  3. Englishvolage

From Old French volage, from Latin volāticus.

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