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passaunt

passaunt is the obsolete form of passant.

Meaning of passant

Adjective

passant (not comparable)

  1. Walking, usually to the right, and looking straight ahead with the right forepaw raised from the ground.
    • 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, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) Currently in use; in vogue.
    • Many opinions are passant concerning the basilisk, or little king of serpents, commonly called the cockatrice [...].1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.7

Questions about passaunt

What is passaunt the obsolete form of?
Passaunt is the obsolete form of passant.

Words near passaunt in the dictionary

  1. passaround
  2. passarounds
  3. passata
  4. passatas
  5. Passau
  6. passaunt
  7. Passavant
  8. passback
  9. passband
  10. passbands
  11. passbook

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