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What is a volte-face?

What is a volte-face? Here are some definitions.

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Then, off to my right around 10 metres, the shark bent, twisted and went volte-face on a sixpence, gathering speed as it cruised back toward me.
Later, critics were stunned by his apparent volte-face into peace-making.
The work shows a complete volte-face from his previous music.
Lastly, they have, in its highest development, the capacity to make a volte-face with grace and equanimity.
Many attempts have been made to explain the volte-face but, in the absence of good evidence for Becket's state of mind in 1162-3, they remain highly speculative.
Such a volte-face as this was not only palpably unjust, it was altogether too nimble a bit of gymnastics for Duplay to appreciate.

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