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laissez-passer
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French laissez-passer.
Pronunciation
Noun
laissez-passer (plural laissez-passers)
- A pass or permit; a document permitting the bearer to travel, sometimes issued as an emergency passport.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 385:
- ‘Find the British Consul, and Jane can claim she lost her money and passport. He'll issue her with some kind of laissez-passer.’
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
laissez-passer m (plural laissez-passer)
- pass (document granting permission to pass or to go and come)
Descendants
- → English: laissez-passer
- → Hebrew: לסה פסה
Further reading
- “laissez-passer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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