repassage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
repassage (countable and uncountable, plural repassages)
- The act of repassing; passage back.
- 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
- the French, whereof twentie vnder the conduct of Cazanoue, getting betweene the Fort and them which now were issued forth, cut off their repassage
- The process of passing a second coat of glue as a finish over unburnished surfaces.
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French[edit]
Noun[edit]
repassage m (plural repassages)
- ironing (act of ironing clothing)
- Faire le repassage. ― To do the ironing.
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Further reading[edit]
- “repassage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.