guardant
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of guardant
1565–75; < French gardant, present participle of garder. See guard, -ant
Example Sentences
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The Lion Crest of Richard II., sculptured statant guardant upon his helm, with a chapeau and mantling, and with the Badge of two Ostrich feathers, in Westminster Hall, is without any crown: No. 199.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
The Lion passant is carefully distinguished in the earliest Rolls as a different Charge from the Lion passant guardant.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
Argent, a lion rampant guardant gules, debruised by a fess azure.
From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous
Here was a worthy quest—a beautiful if not precious crystal betokening the actual presence of a wary demon guardant over the mouldering skeletons of Wylo's forefathers!
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
The crown is generally surmounted with a crest: as in the arms of the kings of England, the crown is surmounted by a lion statant, guardant, crowned.
From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous
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