passport
/ˈpæspɔɹt/ nom B1En français : passeport
- An official document normally used for international journeys, which proves the identity and nationality of the person for whom it was issued. · You will have to bring your passport to prove who you are.
- Any document that allows entry or passage.
- Something which enables someone to do or achieve something. · The tenor's voice was his passport to the international concert circuit.
- An identification document used by firefighters, collected when they enter a dangerous area and returned when they leave, to keep track of who is still in the area.
Pluriel passports
Dans la bibliothèque
Still Dantès could not view without a shudder the approach of a gendarme who accompanied the officers deputed to demand his bill of health ere the yacht was permitted to hold communication with the shore; but with that perfect self-possession he had acquired during his acquaintance with Faria, Dantès coolly presented an English passport he had obtained from Leghorn, and as this gave him a standing which a French passport would not have afforded, he was informed that there existed no obstacle to his immediate debarkation.
Having obtained the address of the person to whom the house in the Allées de Meilhan belonged, Dantès next proceeded thither, and, under the name of Lord Wilmore (the name and title inscribed on his passport), purchased the small dwelling for the sum of twenty-five thousand francs, at least ten thousand more than it was worth; but had its owner asked half a million, it would unhesitatingly have been given.
“Ah, father,” said Albert with a smile, “it is evident you do not know the Count of Monte Cristo; he despises all honors, and contents himself with those written on his passport.”
Your father did not hesitate an instant, and the sum was sent to the frontier of Piedmont, with a passport signed for Italy.
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