noun French.
the numbers 19 through 36 in roulette.
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pas·sé
[pa-sey; for 4 also French pah-sey] adjective, noun, plural pas·sés [pa-seyz; French 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no longer fashionable, in wide use, etc.; out-of-date; outmoded: There were many photographs of passé fashions.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.
Synonyms
1. old-fashioned, démodé, quaint.
1. old-fashioned, démodé, quaint.
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So is zedonk. 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. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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| —adj | |
| 1. | out-of-date: passé ideas |
| 2. | past the prime; faded: a passé society beauty |
| [C18: from French, past participle of passer to | |
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Word Origin & History
passe
1775, from Fr. passé (fem. passée) "past, faded," pp. of passer "to pass." Originally of a woman past the period of greatest beauty.
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