pas·sade 
(pə-säd)
(pə-säd)n.
1. A dressage technique in which the horse turns in a circle, with the hindlegs making a smaller circle than the forelegs.
2. A passing flirtation or romance: "How can it be that the sympathy between two people like ourselves ... should end from one day to another like a mere passade?" (Edith Wharton).
[French, passado, passade, from Italian passata, from passare, to pass; see PASSAGE2.]
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