guardant
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
guardant /ˈgɑːd(ə)nt/
▶adjective Heraldry (of an animal) depicted with the body sideways and the face towards the viewer.
– origin C17: from Fr. gardant ‘guarding’, from garder ‘to guard’.
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