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