Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A step or dance.
- noun The right to go before; precedence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
pass and pace. - noun A step, as in dancing or marching.
- noun A dance: as, pas seul, a dance performed by one person; pas de deux, a dance by two persons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pace; a step, as in a dance.
- noun Right of going foremost; precedence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pace ; astep , as in adance . - noun obsolete The
right of goingforemost ;precedence . - noun Plural form of
pa .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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And when I would try with a flower to see if he loved me, -- _Il m'aime, un peu, beaucoup, passionément, pas du tout_, -- if it were _pas du tout_, I would always throw the flower away, and begin tearing off the leaves from another one immediately.
Balcony Stories Grace E. King
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Il a également souligné qu'il ne s'agissait pas de «faire un coup marketing» et que «pas un euro ne sera fait sur ce clip».
videos.antville.org 2010
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Il a également souligné qu'il ne s'agissait pas de «faire un coup marketing» et que «pas un euro ne sera fait sur ce clip».
videos.antville.org spielban 2010
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Not to be mean, but if you are like me, I'm guessing the fashion faux pas is coming from you ... after all these years here, I still can't get it right.
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If this sort of faux pas is what makes or breaks a candidate to some voters ......
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But Clinton's faux pas is more of an image problem than a practical one.
Clinton Fails To File Full PA Delegate Slate - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com 2008
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Wikipedia's list of national faux-pas is wonderful -- though they don't have any entries for Canada.
Boing Boing: November 5, 2006 - November 11, 2006 Archives 2006
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From the Department of Redundancy Department comes this faux pas from a PR agency in NYC.
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Today's applicant to the elite colleges enters a game in which the opportunity for committing a faux pas is just as great as it was fifty years ago, only now the faux pas is on the order of joining the Junior Statesmen of America rather than of sporting ill-fitting khakis.
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Today's applicant to the elite colleges enters a game in which the opportunity for committing a faux pas is just as great as it was fifty years ago, only now the faux pas is on the order of joining the Junior Statesmen of America rather than of sporting ill-fitting khakis.
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