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Name Passepartout
Type Surname
Usage Literature
Pronounced Pron. pahs-per-TOO
Other Forms FormsPaspertout
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Meaning & History
Derived from French passe-partout, which literally means "goes everywhere" but is actually an idiom for "skeleton key".This is the surname of Phileas Fogg's valet in Jules Verne's novel "Around the World in Eighty Days".