Couchant Definition

kouchənt
adjective
Lying down.
Webster's New World
Lying down or crouching, but keeping the head up.
A lion couchant.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • low-statured
  • low-set
  • low-leveled
  • low-hung
  • low-built

Origin of Couchant

  • Middle English from Old French present participle of couchier to lie down couch

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French couchant.

    From Wiktionary

Couchant Sentence Examples

  • Four stone lions couchant guard the approaches to the bridge.

  • The queen disliked him for opposing the grant of favours to her proteges, and he had offended Mme de Polignac in a similar manner (see Marquis de Segur, Au Couchant de la monarchic, p. 305306).

  • Schelle, Turgot (Paris, 1909); and Marquis de Segur, Au Couchant de la monarchie (Paris, 1910), contain much that is based on recent research.

  • This basaltic hill, the name of which is believed to commemorate the British king Arthur, who from its height is said to have watched the defeat of the Picts by his followers, is shaped like a lion couchant, with head towards the north.

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