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En passant   Listen
adverb
En passant  adv.  In passing; in the course of any procedure; said specif. (Chess), Of the taking of an adverse pawn which makes a first move of two squares by a pawn already so advanced as to threaten the first of these squares. The pawn which takes en passant is advanced to the threatened square.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"En passant" Quotes from Famous Books



... mouilleront devant Syracuse.—Et apres?—Maitres de cette ville, nous partons aussitot pour Carthage, et nous nous en emparerons. La route est libre; qui est-ce qui peut nous arreter?—Seigneur, je vous comprends: nous allons tout dompter. Nous allons traverser les deserts de Libye, asservir en passant l'Egypte et l'Arabie, passer le Gange, soumettre des pays inconnus, faire trembler les Scythes sur les bords du Tanais, et ranger sous nos lois toute une moitie du monde. Mais enfin, quand nous serons de retour, vous ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann

... out then some time ago ostensibly to kill a trout or two in some of your delicious streams; and indeed I may without presumption say en passant that few professors of the Rod excel me either in the niceties of my throw, the cool self-possession with which I take my fish, or the indomitable perseverance and perfect tact with which I drown and then land him with ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 - Volume 23, Number 1 • Various



Words linked to "En passant" :   chess game, capture, chess, in passing



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