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passé adjective [ ˈpaseɪ ]

• no longer fashionable; out of date.
• "minis are passé—the best skirts are knee-length"
Similar: out of date, outdated, out, dated, unfashionable, out of fashion, old-fashioned, outmoded, out of style, behind the times, outworn, archaic, obsolescent, obsolete, ancient, antiquated, superannuated, defunct, dead, old-fogeyish, old-fangled, quaint, anachronistic, olde worlde, medieval, démodé, horse-and-buggy, old hat, square, not with it, out of the ark, creaky, clunky, mouldy, square-toed, antwacky, rinky-dink, mossy,
Opposite: fashionable,
Origin: French, literally ‘gone by’, past participle of passer .


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