passade

pas·sade  (p-säd)

n.

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

2. 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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[French, passado, passade, from Italian passata, from passare, to pass; see passage².]