passe
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While some shoppers and even Ms. Stangl see the term “work wear” as passe, Banana Republic still has a dedicated section on its website called “The Workwear Edit.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
That sort of picture is now often described as one that Hollywood has put on the passe schedule.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
"I think the genre has become passe, like beauty pageants used to be a big event on television. It's slipping into that category."
From Reuters ● Mar. 24, 2022
It’s a return to a kind of aggression — one country seeking to take over another — that many American policymakers and voters believed had become passe.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2022
"The matters gothe nat well to passe in Englonde,” he had stated, "nor shall nat do tyll every thyng be common, and that there be no villayns nor gentylmen.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
That’s what the fashion historian James Laver named the period during and immediately following the French Revolution, which made wearing aristocratic fripperies both dangerous and passé.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
“The innovation represents something new and is thus creative. However, it is also destructive, as the company whose technology becomes passé is outcompeted.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025
They also land good zingers about what Gen Z considers passé.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
“He says, ‘People once used to put sugar on their salads, but I can’t believe how passé that is,’” Albala explains.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2025
It was five or six years since she had given up shop, so in any other place than Cranford her dress might have been considered passé.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
Well, Mozart lived in the last days of the old world, and the old world and the thoughts and sentiments of the old world are certainly a little passés now.
From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by John F. Runciman
"That's right, growl ahead, thou, tes beaux jours sont passés, but for me l'amour, l'amour—que c'est gai, que c'est frais!" he half sung, half shouted.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
The mother shed no tears; when from her bed she saw us carry it away she looked mournfully on, and as we went out she whispered, "Mes beaux jours sont passés."
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various
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