en passant , adv : In passing, by the way, incidentally. (chess) Of a player’s pawn when it has moved forward two squares on its first move in the game: captured “in passing” by the other player’s pawn, as if the first player’s pawn had only moved forward one square. Georgian chess player Nona Gaprindashvili, …
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