passade

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

French passade.

Noun

passade (plural passades)

  1. (fencing) A pass or thrust.
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  2. A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for passade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Swedish

Verb

passade

  1. past tense of passa.
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