passade
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pas·sade
(pə-säd') 
n.
n.
- 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).
[French, passado, passade, from Italian passata, from passare, to pass. See passage2.]
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