volte face

See also: volte-face

English

Etymology

From the Latin meaning literally about face.

Noun

volte face

  1. A dramatic change in mood or tone, commonly in poetry.
    Shakespeare often used volte faces in the rhyming couplets at the end of his sonnets.
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