laissez-passer
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French laissez-passer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌlɛseɪ ˈpɑːseɪ/
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.’
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛ.se.pa.se/, /lɛ.se.pɑ.se/, /le.se.pa.se/, /le.se.pɑ.se/
Noun
laissez-passer m (plural laissez-passer)
- pass (document granting permission to pass or to go and come)
Further reading
- “laissez-passer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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