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From French passé (“passed”, past participle of passer (“to pass”)).

passé (comparative more passé, superlative most passé)

(colloquial) Dated; out of style; old-fashioned.
- 1997, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, “Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth”, performed by The Dandy Warhols:
  I never thought you'd be a junkie, because heroin is so passé.
- 2007, “Turn On Billie”, performed by The Pierces:
  We'll paint the town blue 'cause, baby, red is so passé.
- 2022 June 17, Michelle Goldberg, “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore”, in The New York Times‎:
  It is perhaps inevitable that a movement that was the height of fashion in the last decade would start to seem passé in this one. That’s how style works; the young and innovative distinguish themselves by breaking with the conventions of their predecessors.
- 2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
  Then, like side fringes, Smirnoff Ice and tights under denim shorts, smoking was suddenly passé – distasteful, even gross.
Past one's prime; worn; faded.
- 1939 November, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 357:
  The coaching stock is in general in a very passé condition, but the ex-royal saloon, though needing a coat of paint outside, as another photograph shows, is spotless inside.

As in French, passée is sometimes used for the feminine: "a passée belle".

dated; out of style; old-fashioned

passé (plural passés)

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French

passé m (plural passés)

passé (feminine passée, masculine plural passés, feminine plural passées)

past
(used with certain temporal nouns) last
Synonym: dernier

la semaine passée ; l'année passée, l’an passé ; l'hiver passé ― last week; last year; last winter