pas·sade \pəˈsād\noun (-s) Etymology: French, from Italian passata, from passare to pass (from — assumed — Vulgar Latin passare) + -ata -ade — more at pass, vb. 1.: a turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot 2.: a passing love affair : flirtation < it describes a passade, a riffle on the surface of life — Anthony West >