pass-parole

English

Etymology

French passe-parole.

Noun

pass-parole (plural pass-paroles)

1. (military) An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pass-parole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)