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PASSANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does passant mean?
• PASSANT (adjective)
The adjective PASSANT has 1 sense:
1. in walking position with right foreleg raised
Familiarity information: PASSANT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In walking position with right foreleg raised
Similar:
erect; upright; vertical (upright in position or posture)
Domain category:
heraldry (the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies)
Context examples
In he walked, the first and the handsomest; and after paying his compliments en passant to Miss Bates and her niece, made his way directly to the opposite side of the circle, where sat Miss Woodhouse; and till he could find a seat by her, would not sit at all.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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