passant

[ UK /pˈɑːsənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. in walking position with right foreleg raised
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How To Use passant In A Sentence

  • Et que, devant toute femme passant sous ses yeux, s'éveille aussitôt en lui la pulsion de lui sauter sur le râble pour consommer l'oeuvre de chair. Global Voices in English » In France, Sudan, Burqas and Trousers Cause Controversy
  • It has three gold lions on a red background, walking with their heads turned to face out from the shield, or, in heraldic language ‘Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale Or.’
  • Just when a decisive voice is called for, there's Michael Ignatieff bleating almost en passant about the Harper cut-and-run exercise, and then proffering loads of hype about a Liberal "thinkers 'conference" in March (which may conflict with a Spring election call, leaving all those thoughts unthought). Opposition: time to recalibrate
  • Drawing near, Bruetar gently tied a piece of fine cloth embroidered with his sigil - a passant black dragon - around her upper arm.
  • The Conversation of other Books were passant, as are the Entertainments of coquet Mistresses; but this, like a faithful Spouse, was my constant Companion; in her I enjoy'd the whole World, from the Exilius
  • In English heraldry, we find examples of a lion passant on the upper trait of a barry field.
  • In the upper part of the Shield a lion passant guardant dimidiates the hulk of a medieval ship.
  • His younger brother (who became King John) had a seal in 1177 with two lions passant guardant.
  • It was never offered as a legal rebuttal to the NJ decision; it was an en passant summary (and a pretty accurate one at that) and nothing more. The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Strange Consequences of Public Accommodations Laws
  • And upon the top of that one of the stone pillars supporting the gate which I could see, stood a creature of stone, whether natant, volant, passant, couchant, or rampant, I could not tell, only it looked like something terrible enough for a quite antediluvian heraldry. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
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