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laissez-passer
laissez-passer
English
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 2011, p. 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.’
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 385:
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛ.se.pa.se/
Noun
laissez-passer m (plural laissez-passer)
- pass (document granting permission to pass or to go and come)