passades

Noun

passade (plural passades)

1. A pass or thrust.
2. A manège of a horse, pacing back and forth on the same short stretch of ground.
3. (dated) A brief romantic or sexual relationship; a fling.
   • He was fairly sure that if he had acted first he could have enjoyed more kisses, and who knows what might have followed? "The flesh is weak, the heart is susceptible..." Edith was a passionate woman, and Bland was conveniently absent on business in the north of England. But on reflection he was...2011, David Lodge, A Man of Parts: A Novel, Penguin Group, page 134