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passage , pas·sage1 / ˈpasij/ • n. 1. the act or process of moving through, under, over, or past something on the way from one place to another: there were moo… Meatus , meatus (mee-ay-tŭs) n. (in anatomy) a passage or opening. external auditory m. the auditory canal: the passage leading from the pinna of the outer ea… Northwest Passage , Northwest Passage, water routes through the Arctic Archipelago, N Canada, and along the northern coast of Alaska between the Pacific and Atlantic oce… Purple Passage , PURPLE PASSAGE, also purple patch, purple prose. A piece of writing marked by a florid, fanciful style:
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