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volte-face
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noun
an about face; a turnabout; a reversal of point-of-view
1917William John LockeThe Red PlanetHe was alive, he professed robust health, and in reply to Mrs. Holmes's frantically expressed hope that he was adopting no course that might discredit his father's name, he twitted her with intellectual volte-face to the views of Philistia, but at the same time assured her that he was doing nothing which the most self-righteous bourgeois would consider discreditable.1920John GalsworthyThe FoundationsPOULDER. [Making a volte face towards the table] Miss?1951Henry KuttnerThe Ego Machine'Mad or sane, I am Nicholas Martin,' Martin announced, with an abrupt volte face.

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