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passemeasure

passemeasure is the alternative form of passymeasure.

Meaning of passymeasure

Noun

passymeasure (plural passymeasures)

  1. (obsolete) A dance, the passepied.
    • After a passy-measure, or a pavin', I hate a drunken roguec. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Forms of passemeasure

pluralpassemeasures

Questions about passemeasure

What is passemeasure the alternative form of?
Passemeasure is the alternative form of passymeasure.

Words near passemeasure in the dictionary

  1. passegardes
  2. passeggiata
  3. passeggiatas
  4. passel
  5. passels
  6. passemeasure
  7. passemeasures
  8. passement
  9. passementerie
  10. passementeries
  11. passements

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Adapted from Wiktionary: passemeasure (page history and authors); passymeasure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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