Etymology

passymeasure

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Today it means: A dance, the passepied. Full definition →

Italian passamezzo
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  1. Italian · derived frompassamezzo
  2. English todaypassymeasure

Corrupted from Italian passamezzo. Doublet of passamezzo.

Words from the same roots

Italianpassamezzo all →

passamezzo

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