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en passant
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Definition:in passing; incidentally
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I am mightily obliged to Walls, but I don't deserve it by any usage of him here, having seen him but twice, and once en passant.
Jonathan Swift. in a letter dated Oct. 9, 1711
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We remark, en passant, that George was, by his father’s side, of white descent.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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