ETYMOLOGY
from passant (passing by or along, going, proceeding; travelling, journeying)
EXAMPLE
“… Thus passed they their passance, and wore out the wéerie way with these pleasant discourses, & prettie posies, where after their tedious toyle, they came to their Inne, where Phemocles coulde neither eate meate for ioy, nor sléepe in his bedde for the pleasure he cōceiued of his trauell. ..”
From: Narbonus The Laberynth of Libertie
By Austin Saker, 1580
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