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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 raisedplay

  Familiarity information: PASSANT used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PASSANT (adjective)


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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