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"was passed down" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that was passed from one generation to the next, or something that was given from one person to another. For example: The family recipe for apple pie was passed down from my grandmother to my mother.
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Everything was passed down, the gestures even.
Deprivation was passed down like an heirloom.
"It was passed down to me from him.
Over the years the farm was passed down from one generation to the next.
I never met him but his violin was passed down to me.
Perhaps George's was passed down from his forebears, George Vlosich I and II.
The company was passed down to his son, George, and then to his grandson Arthur.
Most likely an incense burner, it was passed down from her grandfather.
His written version of it perished, but the story was passed down by oral tradition.
It was passed down to his son and grandson, Shah Shuja al-Mulk.
When the mutation arose, it was passed down invisibly from pigeon to pigeon.
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