passe
pronunciation
How to pronounce passe in British English:
UK [ˈpæseɪ]
How to pronounce passe in American English:
US [pæˈseɪ]
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- Adjective:
- out of fashion
Word Origin
- passe (adj.)
- 1775, from French passé (fem. passée) "past, faded," past participle of passer "to pass" (see pass (v.)). Originally of a woman past the period of greatest beauty.
Example
- 1. With the paperwhite , the lamp becomes passe .
- 2. Smartphones and tablets have made expensive pens passe to business executives in many parts of the world .
- 3. A pew survey last year determined that more than four in 10 americans younger than 30 consider marriage passe .
- 4. These are the photos from a big photo collection of albert kahn devoted to mongolia visited by a photographer stefan passe in 1913 .