passades

Wells wrote about his love affairs or "passades" in a postscript to his Experiment in Autobiography (1934), leaving instructions that it be suppressed till a decent interval (50 years) had gone by.

A Man of Parts by David Lodge – review 2011

A few months after his last illness, that is to say, when he was more than ninety years of age, he broke in his horses and made a hundred passades at the Bois de

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

A few months after his last illness, that is to say, when he was more than ninety years of age, he broke in his horses and made a hundred passades at the Bois de

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 15 Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715

A few months after his last illness, that is to say, when he was more than ninety years of age, he broke in his horses and made a hundred passades at the Bois de

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715