regardant

English

Etymology

From Middle English regardant, from Anglo-Norman regardant, Middle French regardant.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈɡɑːdn̩t/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Adjective

regardant (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry, of an animal) With the head turned toward the back of the body. [from 15th c.]
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 25:
      The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue.
    • 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
      The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […] .
    • 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
      I see a forked beast squatting on the midden of the world, red-eyed, regardant, gnawing on a shinbone: poor, dumb destroyer.
  2. Watchful, attentive; contemplative. [from 16th c.]

Alternative forms

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Participle

regardant

  1. present participle of regarder

Adjective

regardant (feminine regardante, masculine plural regardants, feminine plural regardantes)

  1. miserly, stingy
  2. attentive to, particular about
    Synonym: à cheval

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