passade

(pə sād)

noun

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
  1. A dressage technique in which the horse is made to course repeatedly over the same spot.
  2. 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).

Origin:

Origin: French, passado, passade

Origin: , from Italian passata

Origin: , from passare, to pass; see passage2

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