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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A step or dance.
- n. The right to go before; precedence.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete form of pass and pace.
- n. A step, as in dancing or marching.
- n. A dance: as, pas seul, a dance performed by one person; pas de deux, a dance by two persons.
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of pa.
- n. A pace; a step, as in a dance.
- n. obsolete The right of going foremost; precedence.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A pace; a step, as in a dance.
- n. Right of going foremost; precedence.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French pas. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, from Latin passus, step; see pace1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And when I would try with a flower to see if he loved me, -- _Il m'aime, un peu, beaucoup, passionément, pas du tout_, -- if it were _pas du tout_, I would always throw the flower away, and begin tearing off the leaves from another one immediately.”
“Il a également souligné qu'il ne s'agissait pas de «faire un coup marketing» et que «pas un euro ne sera fait sur ce clip».”
“Not to be mean, but if you are like me, I'm guessing the fashion faux pas is coming from you ... after all these years here, I still can't get it right.”
“If this sort of faux pas is what makes or breaks a candidate to some voters ......”
“But Clinton's faux pas is more of an image problem than a practical one.”
Clinton Fails To File Full PA Delegate Slate - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
“Wikipedia's list of national faux-pas is wonderful -- though they don't have any entries for Canada.”
“From the Department of Redundancy Department comes this faux pas from a PR agency in NYC.”
“Today's applicant to the elite colleges enters a game in which the opportunity for committing a faux pas is just as great as it was fifty years ago, only now the faux pas is on the order of joining the Junior Statesmen of America rather than of sporting ill-fitting khakis.”
“Well, honey, I wen 'in pas' the watchman, who arst me wha 'I was after, an' I tol 'him.”
“- "Whosoever" is from the Greek word "pas," which carries the idea of totality.”
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