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passe


noun French.

  1. the numbers 19 through 36 in roulette.

adjective

  1. no longer fashionable, in wide use, etc.; out-of-date; outmoded: There were many photographs of passé fashions. I thought hand-cranked pencil sharpeners were passé.
  2. past: time passé.
  3. past the prime of one’s life.

noun, plural pas·sés [pa-seyz; French pah-sey] /pæˈseɪz; French pɑˈseɪ/.

  1. Ballet. a movement in which one leg passes behind or in front of the other.

adjective

  1. out-of-datepassé ideas
  2. past the prime; fadeda passé society beauty

adj.1775, from French passé (fem. passée) “past, faded,” past participle of passer “to pass” (see pass (v.)). Originally of a woman past the period of greatest beauty.

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