passage
/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/ noun A2- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning. · She struggled to play the difficult passages.
- Part of a path or journey. · He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
- An incident or episode.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. · The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
- The advance of time.
- The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- A passageway or corridor.
- A strait or other narrow waterway. · the Northwest Passage
Plural passages
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Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it.
Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.
Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the little passage: and _then_—she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.
“You tell me where your exclusive circles would be if the first Astor hadn’t had the money to pay for his steerage passage over?”
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