rite de passage

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rite de passage

/ˌɹiːt də paˈsɑːʒ/ UK
/ˌɹit də ˌpɑˈsɑʒ/ US

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Borrowed from French rite de passage, and attested later than rite of passage. The French term was coined by French ethnographer and folklorist Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957) and popularized in his work Les rites de passage (1909).

noun rites de passage

Synonym of rite of passage. it seems that the beginning of the decline of this traditional rite de passage should be traced back to the break effected by the Reformation, though the change also had sociological causes, notably the decline of the tightly knit community in which an individual death created an immediate void.
Similar: rite of passage

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@misc{rite_de_passage_2026,
  title = {rite de passage},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rite%20de%20passage},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}