passade

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of the crouching posture assumed by the horse for mounting or "in doing the demi-passade" (so Morgan, op cit.

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  1. noun A dressage technique in which the horse is made to course repeatedly over the same spot.
  2. noun 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).

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  • of the crouching posture assumed by the horse for mounting or "in doing the demi-passade" (so Morgan, op cit. —  On Horsemanship
  • (30) {ton upobasin}, tech. of the crouching posture assumed by the horse for mounting or "in doing the demi-passade" (so Morgan, op.cit. p. 126). —  On Horsemanship
 

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  1. French, passado, passade, from Italian passata, from passare, to pass; see passage2.

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  1. Formerly also passado (after Spanish), passato (after Italian); from French passade = Spanish pasada = Portuguese passada = Italian passata, a pass or thrust in fencing, from Middle Latin passata, a pass, passage, from passare, pass: see pass, v.
 

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