pas-d’âne, n.m., (—) sharp bridle-bit; basket-hilt (of a sword); (bot.) colt’s-foot.
pasigraphie, n.f., pasigraphy.
pasquin, n.m., pasquin.
pasquinade, n.f., pasquinade, lampoon.
☉pasquiniser, v.a., to lampoon, to satirize.
passable, adj., passable, tolerable, middling, decent.
passablement, adv., passably, tolerably, indifferently, middlingly.
passade, n.f., passing, short stay; (fig.) passing fancy, temporary connection; (man.) passade, ducking. Je ne suis que de — à Paris; I am only making a short stay in Paris.
passage, n.m., passage; arcade; thoroughfare, crossing; transition, transit; passage-money; toll; lane, court; gateway, archway. Oiseaux de —; birds of passage. — à niveau (railways); level crossing. Otez-vous du —; stand out of the way. Se faire — or s’ouvrir un —; to make, to cut, one’s way through. Attendre, or guetter, au —; to lie in wait for, to waylay, to wait for any one on his way. Barrer le —; to bar, to stand in the way. Céder le — à; to let pass first. Livrer — à; to make way for.
passager, v.a. and n., (man.) to passage. — un cheval; to passage a horse.