en passant v.
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en passant[ noun ]- (chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed
<noun.act>
[ adv ]- incidentally; in the course of doing something else
<adv.all>
he made this remark in passing
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.]