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). [French, passado, passade, from Italian passata, from passare, to pass; see passage2.] |
passade [pæˈseɪd]
n
(Individual Sports & Recreations / Horse Training, Riding & Manège) Dressage the act of moving back and forth in the same place
[via French from Italian passata, from passare to pass]
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