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Passant   Listen
adjective
Passant  adj.  
1.
Passing from one to another; in circulation; current. (Obs.) "Many opinions are passant."
2.
Careless. (Obs.) "On a passant rewiew of what I wrote to the bishop."
3.
Surpassing; excelling. (Obs.)
4.
(Her.) Walking; said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.





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"Passant" Quotes from Famous Books



... hate the dull monotony of the tri-weekly hacking at the pels with a heavy broadsword as he hated nothing else; but now, though he still had that exercise to perform, it was almost a relief from the heavy dulness of riding, riding, riding in the tilt-yard with shield and lance—couch—recover—en passant. ...
— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle
... and Queries, Sixth Series, i. 494, speaks of a "large silver salver bearing a lion passant and a leopard's head crowned. In the centre are the arms and crest of Shakespeare, and on an escutcheon of pretence three stags' heads caboshed. It bears the inscription, 'William Powlett Powlett, Esq., D.D. William Powlett Shakspear, 1821.' ...
— Shakespeare's Family • Mrs. C. C. Stopes


Words linked to "Passant" :   erect, heraldry, vertical, en passant, upright


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