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‖ passé, a. and n.1|pɑse|
Also (in fem. form) passée.
[F. passé, passée, pa. pple. of passer to pass, used as adj., in same sense.]
A. adj. Past, past the prime; esp. of a woman: past the period of greatest beauty; also, out of date, behind the times, superseded.
1775F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 101 Others say that she is passée. 1823Byron Juan xiii. lxxx, The passport shrouds The ‘passée’ and the past; for good society Is no less fam'd for tolerance than piety. 1853Lytton My Novel v. viii, Even a Frenchman would not have called her passée—that is for a widow. For a spinster, it would have been different. 1865‘Ouida’ Strathmore I. viii. 133 Malice is for passées women. 1886F. Harrison Choice Bks. 71 They..pronounce Fielding to be low, and Mozart to be passé.
B. as n. In Ballet (see quot. 1948). Also attrib.
1948A. Chujoy tr. Vaganova's Basic Princ. Classical Ballet vi. 65 Passé corresponds to its French meaning (passed). It is an auxiliary movement which transfers (passes) the leg from one position into another. If you are standing in développé effacé forward and you wish to bring the leg back into arabesque without doing a grand rond de jambe, you bend the leg at the knee, leaving it at a height of 90°, brush the toe of that foot past the standing leg and bring it out into arabesque. The passing the leg through this path is called passé. 1957T. Mara Second Steps in Ballet 41 Passé... This means to pass the foot to a position at the knee in preparation for opening it in the développé. The right foot is strongly pointed at the little hollow of the supporting knee. 1959B. & P. Fletcher How to improve your Ballet Dancing ix. 100 Relevé to passé position on left toe with right toe touching inside supporting knee. 1967G. Grant Tech. Man. & Dict. Classical Ballet (ed. 2) 75 Passé,..is an auxiliary movement in which the foot of the working leg passes the knee of the supporting leg from one position to another (as, for example, in développé passé en avant) or one leg passes the other in the air (as in jeté passé en avant) or one foot is picked up and passes in back or in front of the supporting leg (as in chassé passé). |