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‖ impasse|ɛ̃pɑs, ɪmˈpɑs, -ˈpæs|
[F. (Voltaire), f. im- (im-2) + stem of passer to pass.]
A road or way having no outlet; a blind alley, ‘cul-de-sac’. Also fig., a position from which there is no way of escape, a ‘fix’.
1851H. Greville Leaves fr. Diary 381 He ought to have given battle before plunging the country into this impasse. 1874Mivart in Manning Ess. Relig. & Lit. III. 221 It is grammar and not reason which reduces them to this impasse. 1880Fortn. Rev. Apr. 520 They find themselves in an impasse, unable to advance or retreat. 1882H. C. Merivale Faucit of B. II. i. xxiv. 108 Somewhere off Piccadilly, among the curious little impasses of the Mayfair maze. |