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passant

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pas·sant  (psnt)
adj. Heraldry
Being a beast facing and walking toward the viewer's left with one front leg raised.
[Middle English, from Old French, present participle of passer, to pass; see pass.]
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passant
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Adj.1.passant - in walking position with right foreleg raised
heraldry - the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies
erect, upright, vertical - upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright"


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de Port Royal, and he had made a collection, en passant, in the society of Athos and Aramis, of many morsels of Seneca and Cicero, translated by them, and applied to the uses of common life.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
But I may as well say --en passant, as the French remark --that I myself --that is to say, Jack Bunger, late of the reverend clergy --am a strict total abstinence man; I never drink-- Water
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
de Treville had served him so faithfully in his wars against the league that in default of money--a thing to which the Bearnais was accustomed all his life, and who constantly paid his debts with that of which he never stood in need of borrowing, that is to say, with ready wit--in default of money, we repeat, he authorized him, after the reduction of Paris, to assume for his arms a golden lion passant upon gules, with the motto Fidelis et fortis.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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