PASSÉ


Meaning of PASSÉ in English

I. adjective

or pas·sée (ˈ)paˈsā

Etymology: French, from past participle of passer to pass

1. : past one's prime : no longer young : faded

a fine brain in a somewhat passé body — American Mercury

a somewhat rakish but passé miss — Newsweek

2.

a. : no longer fashionable or in demand : outmoded

the work which is spurned as passé becomes a period piece — A.L.Guérard

a broad, dark, tree-lined street of passé frame houses — Lester Atwell

b. : not up-to-date : behind the times

the clinician without an active experimental laboratory attached to his wards is apt to be called passé — Science

II. noun

( -s )

Etymology: French, from past participle of passer

: a ballet movement in which the leg passes from one position to another

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