Wiktionary
rite de passage
n. (context chiefly anthropology English) A rite of passage. (from 20th c.)
Usage examples of "rite de passage".
She rejected all such ceremonial, or suggestion of a rite de passage, with her favourite term of disapproval.
For those who undergo the ritual it is a rite de passage, a rebirth into a new life, and the myth, the spoken part of the ritual, describes the original situation, the reception of children by Christ, which is reproduced by the words and actions of the priest in the ritual.