repassage

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noun

The act of repassing; passage back.

OriginEnglish passage ← Middle English re- ← Old French re- →
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Meanings

nounrepassage (countable and uncountable, plural repassages)

plural repassages

  1. countableuncountableThe act of repassing; passage back.

    the French, whereof twentie vnder the conduct of Cazanoue, getting betweene the Fort and them which now were issued forth, cut off their repassage

    1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC
  2. countableuncountableThe process of passing a second coat of glue as a finish over unburnished surfaces.

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishpassage
  7. Englishrepassage

From re- + passage.

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APA

repassage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repassage

MLA

“repassage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repassage. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “repassage,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/repassage.

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