Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Positioned so that the head is turned toward the viewer. Used of an animal depicted so that its body is viewed from the side.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Acting as a guard or guardian; protecting.
- In heraldry See
gardant . - noun A guard or guardian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A guardian.
- adjective obsolete Acting as guardian.
- adjective (Her.) Same as
Gardant .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective heraldry, of an animal Positioned with the
body viewed from the side, but with thehead turned toward the viewer - noun obsolete A
guardian .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective looking forward
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All that has been squeezed onto its reverse is the rear flanks of one lion passant guardant and the anus of another.
Trashing Our Coinage 2008
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All that has been squeezed onto its reverse is the rear flanks of one lion passant guardant and the anus of another.
Archive 2008-03-30 2008
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A waiter in full bloom appeared at the end of the passage, guardant.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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At the feet an angel, with flowing black hair, and crowned, is represented rising from clouds, holding towards the recumbent figure a shield, on which the Priory Arms are embossed and illuminated: _Gules_, two lions _passant guardant: or_, two ducal coronets in chief.
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Pointed oval: St. Bartholomew standing on a lion _couchant guardant_, in the right hand a knife, his emblem, in the left hand a book.
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Three lions passant-guardant in pale -- England, for ...
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 575, November 10, 1832 Various
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On the dexter and sinister sides, two demi-doctors, issuant of the second, and two cane heads, issuant of the third; the first having one eye, couchant, towards the dexter side of the escutcheon; the second faced, per pale, proper, and gules guardant.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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Sable, on a fesse invected or, between three cats a mountain passant guardant argent, a fasces in bend, surmounting a sword in bend sinister proper, between two crescents gules, in the centre chief point a rose of the third.
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Now, you companion, Ill say an errand for you: you shall know now that I am in estimation; you shall perceive that a Jack guardant cannot office me from my son Coriolanus: guess, but by my entertainment with him, if thou standest not i the state of hanging, or of some death more long in spectatorship, and crueller in suffering; behold now presently, and swound for whats to come upon thee.
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On a cross five lions passant guardant -- City of York.
chained_bear commented on the word guardant
also spelled gardant. In heraldry, of a beast: having the full face towards the spectator. Sometimes accompanied by additional description, e.g. passant guardant.
February 5, 2007
bilby commented on the word guardant
"MENENIUS: Now, you companion, I'll say an errand for you; you shall know now that I am in estimation; you shall perceive that a jack guardant cannot office me from my son Coriolanus..."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 29, 2009