Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One of several usually one-handed maneuvers in bullfighting in which the matador presents and moves the cape to attract a close, passing charge of the bull.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of pace and of pasch.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish, from pasar, to pass, from Vulgar Latin *passāre; see pass.]

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Examples

  • Plus, once it's legal, it will be pase ', which might actually further lessen demand.

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  • Plus, once it's legal, it will be pase ', which might actually further lessen demand.

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  • Plus, once it's legal, it will be pase ', which might actually further lessen demand.

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  • Plus, once it's legal, it will be pase ', which might actually further lessen demand.

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  • Plus, once it's legal, it will be pase ', which might actually further lessen demand.

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  • Banks had huge profits in the pase few years, as a pct of all corps way over their long term average.

    Matthew Yglesias » Boring Into the Obama Stimulus Plan 2009

  • It's puente del aire , (literally, "air bridge") in some media markets, or pase de puente ("bridge pass") in others.

    Talking Basketball, in Spanish, Is Definitely No Slam Dunk Joel Millman 2011

  • Plus, once it's legal, it will be pase ', which might actually further lessen demand.

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  • Plus, once it's legal, it will be pase ', which might actually further lessen demand.

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  • Plus, once it's legal, it will be pase ', which might actually further lessen demand.

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