/ · 1894 Brewer’s · P · Passy-measure or Passing-measure
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A slow, stately dance; a corruption of the Italian passamezzo (a middle pace or step). It is called a cinque measure, because it consists of five measures—“two singles and a double forward, with two singles side.” (Collier.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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