Also 8 volse. [a. F. valse (= Sp. vals, Pg. valsa, It. valzer), ad. G. walzer WALTZ.] A round dance in triple time, a waltz; the music for this. Also attrib.
1796. Times, 19 Feb., in Ashton, Old Times (1885), 321. The young Ladies are particularly favourable to a German Dance, called the Volse.
1880. Grove’s Dict. Mus., I. 350/1. [Chopin’s] first … compositions were dances: Polonaises Mazurkas, and Valses.
1894. E. Scott, Dancing, 168. The Versa, a new Valse Dance.
