safe-conduct
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See also: safe conduct
English
Etymology
Calque of Old French sauf-conduit.
Noun
safe-conduct (plural safe-conducts)
- A document that grants safe passage through enemy territory in times of war.
- Synonym: (obsolete) passe-partout
- A convoy or guard to protect a person in a foreign country.
Translations
document
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Verb
safe-conduct (third-person singular simple present safe-conducts, present participle safe-conducting, simple past and past participle safe-conducted)
- (obsolete) To guarantee safe passage by granting such a document.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- Who […] Haue paſt the armie of the mightie Turke:
Bearing his priuie ſignet and his hand,
To ſafe conduct vs thorow Affrica: […]