Meanings
- not comparableraregovernmentCounterpassant.
[…] To the right of the window is the image of a single passant repassant lion, which marches along the decorative[…]
1995, Lynn Anne Jones, Between Byzantium and Islam: Royal Iconography and the Church of the Holy Cross at Aghtamar2 more examples
[...] Hee beareth, Sable, two lyoncels, the one paffant, the other repassant, Argent, both collared, Gules, but in mine opinion no man by this last blazon is able to tricke, or expresse the true portraiture and manner of the bearing of these lioncels, […]
1638, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie, page 194REPASSANT, a. [...] in her., term applied when two lions or other animals are borne going contrary ways, one of which is passant, by walking toward the dexter side of the shield in the usual way, and the other repassant by going toward the sinister.
1891, Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language, page 23
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Origin
Compare French repassant (present participle of repasser).
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