单词 | passe-passe |
释义 | † passe-passen. Obsolete. rare. Sleight of hand; clever trickery; † tour of passe-passe n. Obsolete a feat of skilful deception or trickery. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > a trick colea1307 playa1475 conveyance1534 legerdemain?1544 prank1555 convoyance1578 sleight1596 pass1599 paviea1605 trick1609 sleight of handa1626 hocus-pocus1647 juggle1664 hocus-trickc1680 passe-passe1687 jugglementa1708 thaumaturgics1721 necromantics1745 conjuration1820 1687 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times I. 82 After this, and in the Next Parliament, they had Another Tour of Passe-Passe. 1857–92 W. Whitman Daybks. & Notebks. (1978) III. 677 Passe-passe..trick—slight of hand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < |
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