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repoˈlon rare.
Also 6 repolone, 9 repollon.
[ad. It. repolone or F. repolon = Sp. repelon, of doubtful origin.]
(See earliest quots.)
Cotgr. identifies repolon and passade, and defines the latter in agreement with Florio; but later French Dicts. explain repolon as ‘demivolte en cinq temps’.
1598Florio, Repoloni..is when a horse doth gallop in a right path, and still returneth in the same, in english it is now called a Repolone. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Repolon (with Horsemen) is a Demivolt, the Croup inclos'd at five Times. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1892Ld. Lytton K. Poppy iii. 97 Performing all His volts and demivolts and repollons Among the roaring flames. |