passed pawn

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noun Chess.

a pawn with no opposing pawn either on an adjacent file or on its own file.

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Origin of passed pawn

First recorded in 1790–1800

Words nearby passed pawn

pass degree, passe, passé composé, passed, passed ball, passed pawn, passel, passement, passementerie, passenger, passenger mile

How to use passed pawn in a sentence

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As the months passed and she began to cast the film, I became increasingly excited.
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During his trek, Brinsley twice passed within a block of a police stationhouse and he almost certainly saw cops along the way.
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It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
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Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.
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After we had passed over this desert, we found several garisons to defend the caravans from the violence of the Tartars.
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Nevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.
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A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
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