passant

alternative passaunt

1. not comparablegovernmentWalking, usually to the right, and looking straight ahead with the right forepaw raised from the ground.First known use 15th c.

   He them espying, gan himselfe prepare, / And on his arme addresse his goodly shield / That bore a Lion passant in a golden field.

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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   The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].

   1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480

2. not comparableobsoleteCurrently in use; in vogue.First known use 17th–19th c.

   Many opinions are passant concerning the basilisk, or little king of serpents, commonly called the cockatrice [...].

   1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.7