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(heraldry, of an animal) With the head turned toward the back of the body. quotations examples
The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue.
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 25
I see a forked beast squatting on the midden of the world, red-eyed, regardant, gnawing on a shinbone: poor, dumb destroyer.
1993, John Banville, Ghosts
Watchful, attentive; contemplative. quotations examples
To horse, to horse: thus once Eurydice, / With looks regardant, did the Thracian gaze […].
1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, II.3
He stood regardant for a moment.
1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, page 84
And now others, casually regardant, passed the place in automobiles ….
1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, page 183