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repassage en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English passage English repassage From re- + passage.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of repassing; passage back.
    • the French, whereof twentie vnder the conduct of Cazanoue, getting betweene the Fort and them which now were issued forth, cut off their repassage 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
  2. (countable, uncountable) The process of passing a second coat of glue as a finish over unburnished surfaces.

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