passant

Etymology

From Middle English passaunt (c. 1300), from Old French passant.

adj

  1. (heraldry, of a four-legged animal) Walking, usually to the right, and looking straight ahead with the right forepaw raised from the ground.
  2. (obsolete) Currently in use; in vogue.
    Many opinions are passant concerning the basilisk, or little king of serpents, commonly called the cockatrice …. 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.7

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