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- (Italian, from Spanish passacalle, or pasacalle: "street song"), musical form of continuous variation in 34 time; and a courtly dance. The dance, as it first appeared in 17th-century Spain, was ...
- passage rite
- any of numerous ceremonial events, existing in all historically known societies, that mark the passage of an individual from one social or religious status to another. Many of the most ...
- Passaic
- county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., bordered by New York state to the north and the Pequannock and Pompton rivers to the south; the Passaic River, which crosses the southeastern portion ...
- Passaic
- city, Passaic county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., on the Passaic River, 9 miles (14 km) north of Newark. It was established by the Dutch in 1678 as a fur-trading post. ...
- Passaic River
- river, rising near Morristown, southeastern Morris county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It flows south past Millington, then north and east to Paterson and its Great Falls (70 feet [21 metres] ...
- Passamaquoddy
- Algonkian-speaking Indians who lived on Passamaquoddy Bay, the St. Croix River, and Schoodic Lake on the boundary between what are now Maine and New Brunswick. They belonged to the Abenaki ...
- Passamaquoddy Bay
- inlet of the Bay of Fundy (Atlantic Ocean), between southwestern New Brunswick, Can., and southeastern Maine, U.S., at the mouth of the St. Croix River. Deer Island and Campobello Island ...
- Passarowitz, Treaty of
- (July 21, 1718), pact signed at the conclusion of the Austro-Turkish (1716-18) and the Venetian-Turkish (1716-18) wars at Passarowitz (now Pozerevac, Yugos.). By its terms the Ottoman Turks lost substantial ...
- Passau
- city, Bavaria Land (state), southeastern Germany. It lies at the confluence of the Danube, Inn, and Ilz rivers, on the Austrian border.
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