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"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Calque of Italian volta-faccia, itself from voltare (“to turn”) + faccia (“face”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "volte-face",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "volte-faces",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"2": "#",
"3": "+"
},
"expansion": "volte-face f (plural volte-face or volte-faces)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "tête à queue"
},
{
"word": "tête-à-queue"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"U-turn; about face (act of turning round 180 degrees)"
],
"links": [
[
"U-turn",
"U-turn"
],
[
"about face",
"about face"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"U-turn; volte-face"
],
"links": [
[
"U-turn",
"U-turn"
],
[
"volte-face",
"volte-face#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) U-turn; volte-face"
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/vɔl.t(ə).fas/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-volte-face.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d1/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-volte-face.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-volte-face.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d1/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-volte-face.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-volte-face.wav.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "volte-face"
}
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