laissez-passer
a permit; pass, especially one issued in lieu of a passport.
Origin of laissez-passer
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How to use laissez-passer in a sentence
I did not ask for any laissez-passer, knowing well enough that it would not be granted.
Field Hospital and Flying Column | Violetta ThurstanOn one of them was found a laissez passer in the name of Edward Seyer, of Badonviller.
Current History, A Monthly Magazine | New York TimesThey will not form into line after the example of the Parisian queue, but crowd around the pen with the cry of "Laissez passer."
Fragments of an Autobiography | Felix MoschelesSome people will say, You are partisans, then, of the laissez passer?
Economic Sophisms | Frederic BastiatHad the Spanish authorities the courage to utter the magic words “Laissez faire, laissez passer!”
A Visit to the Philippine Islands | John Bowring
British Dictionary definitions for laissez passer
laisser passer
/ French (lese pase) /
a document granting unrestricted access or movement to its holder
Origin of laissez passer
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