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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward [syn: lunge, straight thrust, passado]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -dos or -does) Etymology: modification of Middle French passade (from Old Italian passata) or Old Italian passata, from passare to pass, from Vulgar Latin Date: 1588 archaic a thrust in fencing with one foot advanced

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Passade Pas*sade", Passado Pas*sa"do, n. [F. passade; cf. Sp. pasada. See Pass, v. i.] 1. (Fencing) A pass or thrust. --Shak. 2. (Man.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.