Passé Blanc
Passé Blanc by Talullah Bebop July 20, 2022
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PASSE BLANC
A term used for the "French Creoles of Color" in Louisiana that were so light skinned and looked so white that they were called "Passe Blanc" which is French for "Passing White".
They could also be called "Passe Pour Blanc" which which is French for "Passing for white"
They could also be called "Passe Pour Blanc" which which is French for "Passing for white"
PASSE BLANC by Pisces child July 12, 2011
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Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
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You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)