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Passtime

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of pastime. alt-of, obsolete

    "You will by this time think I am in love with her; so before I go any further I will tell you I am not — she kept me awake one Night as a tune of Mozart's might do — I speak of the thing as a passtime and an amuzement than which I can feel none deeper than a conversation with an imperial woman the very ‘yes’ and ‘no’ of whose Lips is to me a Banquet."

Etymology

From Middle English passe tyme, calque of Middle French passe-temps.

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