Horsemanship the movement of a horse backward and forward over the same course
Origin:
Fr < It passata < passare, pass < VL: see passacaglia
See passade in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
A dressage technique in which the horse is made to course repeatedly over the same spot.
A passing flirtation or romance: “How can it be that the sympathy between two people like ourselves . . . should end from one day to another like a mere passade?”(Edith Wharton).