en passant

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en passant - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  En passant \En` pas`sant"\ [F.]
     In passing; in the course of any procedure; -- said specif.
     (Chess), of the taking of an adverse pawn which makes a first
     move of two squares by a pawn already so advanced as to
     threaten the first of these squares. The pawn which takes en
     passant is advanced to the threatened square.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

en passant - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  en passant
      adv 1: incidentally; in the course of doing something else; "he
             made this remark in passing" [syn: in passing, en  passant
             ]
      n 1: (chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be
           captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that
           was passed