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laissez-passer

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lais⋅sez-pas⋅ser

  [les-ey-pa-sey; Fr. le-sey-pah-sey]
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–noun, plural lais⋅sez-pas⋅sers, French. lais⋅sez-pas⋅ser.
a permit; pass, esp. one issued in lieu of a passport.
Origin:
< F: lit., allow to pass
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lais·sez-pas·ser   (lěs'ā-pä-sā')   
n.  A pass, especially one used in lieu of a passport.

[French : laissez, second person pl. imperative of laisser, to let + passer, to pass.]
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