Rhet. Obs. rare–1. [f. TURN v. + WAY adv. away, after Gr. ἀποστροφή.] = APOSTROPHE1 1.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. xix. (Arb.), 245. When we haue runne a long race in our tale … we do sodainly flye out and either speake or exclaime at some other person or thing, and therefore the Greekes call such figure (as we do) the turnway or turnetale.
