A dressage technique in which the horse is made to course repeatedly over the same spot.
A passing flirtation or romance: "How can it be that the sympathy between two people like ourselves . . . should end from one day to another like a mere passade?"(Edith Wharton).
[French, passado, passade, from Italian passata, from passare, to pass; see passage2.]
[puh-seyd] 
