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regardant🔊

(heraldry, of an animal) With the head turned toward the back of the body.

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The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue.
I see a forked beast squatting on the midden of the world, red-eyed, regardant, gnawing on a shinbone: poor, dumb destroyer.

Watchful, attentive; contemplative.

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To horse, to horse: thus once Eurydice, / With looks regardant, did the Thracian gaze […].
He stood regardant for a moment.
And now others, casually regardant, passed the place in automobiles ….
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