She might have arrived at that age at which one intends to stop for the next ten years, but even a Frenchman would not have called her passee, -- that is, for a widow. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
Not having a shoulder on the road gives the "passee" no place to go if there is an oncoming car. From Wordnik.com. [Anything negative about Lakeside living?] Reference
I think this is the case when the French would say "passee". From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
All this designer label naming is so passee, such a bore. From Wordnik.com. [Sex and the City: A Product-Placement Roundup: Vanity Fair] Reference
Detail de votre commande n° 402-2435920-0809943 passee le avril 28 2008. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » The Wanderlust Wingding] Reference
UPDATE: One of my latest daily reads, the hilarious Jim-on-the-water, has some good rules for cruise-control junkies and for being the passer or the passee. From Wordnik.com. [December 2003] Reference
She must have been pretty once, but is rather passee; she is not well gantee, but she has a pretty hand — and while mamma talks to her, come with me to my own room, — my own, own room. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
Je n'ai qu'un seul regret: Ils ne m'ont revele aucun secret de la vie passee de Joel!. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Buds, 'I have cried to them,' do not dare to open yet, or you will be horribly passee by Easter. From Wordnik.com. [A Mountain Woman] Reference
"You are really hideously passee, mon amie," she observed as she peered at herself searchingly; "but we will remedy all that.". From Wordnik.com. [An Ambitious Man] Reference
She must have been pretty once, but is rather passee; she is not well gantee, but she has a pretty hand -- and while mamma talks to her, come with me to my own room, -- my own, own room. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
The movie has an undeniable charm and a warmth that caused me to forgive occasionally undercooked effects in order to celebrate a story of growth and learning that in a western context might have seemed passee. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Times] Reference
Notwithstanding the beauty of her face and figure, and the greatness of her style both as actress and singer, she was pronounced passee alike in person and voice, with a species of brutal frankness not uncommon in English criticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Italian and French Composers]
Ah! you cannot judge of her quite, she is passee, broken, and aged, and, poor thing! is querulous at feeling the loss of her past powers; but there used to be a brilliance and piquancy in her conversation that has become something very different now. '. From Wordnik.com. [Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife] Reference
The 'passee' and the past; for good society. From Wordnik.com. [Don Juan] Reference
"General Tirtoff sent me a 'laisser passee' and a certificate so that. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
La surexcitation cerebrale est completement passee, mais je n'espere pas etre remis avant un mois.”. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Gilbert Hamerton]
I guess textualism and formalism are so passee. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » California legislature passes gay marriage bill for second time:] Reference
November 1692: -- "Mes amis, l'annee passee, avoient dessein de me rappeler par le Parlement. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
I had been trying for an engagement, and finding that beside your high-school diploma young ladies I am considered quite passee -- ". From Wordnik.com. [Modern Broods] Reference
There is my own Mary -- un peu passee certainly -- but deil mean her, for half a dozen lit "--" Now, Tom Cringle, don't bother with your sentimentality, but get along, do. ". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
Here it is rather passee. '. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson]
"Ma poussee s'est fort bien passee!". From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
The Baroness was now hopelessly passee. From Wordnik.com. [An Ambitious Man] Reference
Felicite passee. From Wordnik.com. [Innocent : her fancy and his fact] Reference
You admire only passee beauty.”. From Wordnik.com. [Strong as Death] Reference
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