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laissez-passer

[ les-ey-pa-sey; French le-sey-pah-sey ]

noun

, plural lais·sez-pas·sers, French lais·sez-pas·ser.
  1. a permit; pass, especially one issued in lieu of a passport.


laissez passer

/ lese pase /

noun

  1. a document granting unrestricted access or movement to its holder


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Word History and Origins

Origin of laissez-passer1

< French: literally, allow to pass

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Word History and Origins

Origin of laissez-passer1

literally: let pass

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Example Sentences

I did not ask for any laissez-passer, knowing well enough that it would not be granted.

On one of them was found a laissez passer in the name of Edward Seyer, of Badonviller.

They will not form into line after the example of the Parisian queue, but crowd around the pen with the cry of "Laissez passer."

Some people will say, You are partisans, then, of the laissez passer?

Had the Spanish authorities the courage to utter the magic words “Laissez faire, laissez passer!”

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