guardantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French guardant, present participle of guarder (“to watch”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)dənt/

形容詞

guardant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry, of an animal) Positioned with the body viewed from the side, but with the head turned toward the viewer.

関連する語

• reguardant, regardant

名詞

guardant (plural guardants)

1. (obsolete) A guardian or guard.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     But when my angry guardant stood alone,
     Tendering my ruin and assail'd of none,
     Dizzy-eyed fury and great rage of heart
     Suddenly made him from my side to start
     Into the clustering battle of the French.

参照

• “guardant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.