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Definition of Laissez passer
1. Noun. A document indicating permission to do something without restrictions. "The media representatives had special passes"
Generic synonyms: Permission
Specialized synonyms: Boarding Card, Boarding Pass, Hall Pass, Ticket-of-leave
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laissez Passer
Literary usage of Laissez passer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Reminiscences by Raphael Pumpelly (1918)
"... for me a laissez passer from the Turkish Ambassador. It was in Turkish, and
in sending it to me Mr. Choate wrote: "After reading it I am not sure that ..."
2. National System of Political Economy by Friedrich List, Stephen Colwell (1856)
"Whatever be the exaggerations to which the maxim of laissez passer has given
rise, it ought to be said the merchants, as such, have not been prominent ..."
3. Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in by Edward Latham (1906)
"laissez passer la justice du roi. (Make way for the king's justice.) Inscription
said to have been placed, in the reign (1380-1422) of CHARLES VI ..."
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