passé

[pa-sey; for 4 also Fr. pah-sey]

pas·sé

[pa-sey; for 4 also Fr. pah-sey] adjective, noun, plural pas·sés [pa-seyz; Fr. pah-sey] .
adjective
1.
no longer fashionable, in wide use, etc.; out-of-date; outmoded: There were many photographs of passé fashions. I thought hand-cranked pencil sharpeners were passé.
2.
past: time passé.
3.
past the prime of one's life.
noun
4.
Ballet. a movement in which one leg passes behind or in front of the other.

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Passé is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

Origin:
1765–75; < French, past participle of passer to pass


1. old-fashioned, démodé, quaint.

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passé (ˈpɑːseɪ, ˈpɑseɪ, French pɑse)
 
adj
1.  out-of-date: passé ideas
2.  past the prime; faded: a passé society beauty
 
[C18: from French, past participle of passer to pass]

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