volte-face in English
noun
1
an act of turning around so as to face in the opposite direction.
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.
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1. Interestingly, as Marc Galanter has observed, the report of the Commission despite the “last minute volte –face by the Chairperson of the Commission” considered caste a relevant criterion to determine Backwardness.