Usually means: Piece capturing diagonally in chess.
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  1. passant: Merriam-Webster
  2. passant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. passant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. passant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. passant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Passant, passant: Wordnik
  7. passant: Wiktionary
  8. passant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. passant: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Passant, passant: Dictionary.com
  11. Passant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Passant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. passant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Passant (m), Passant, passant(e) (m/f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. passant: FreeDictionary.org
  16. passant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. passant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. passant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. passant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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adjective:  (heraldry, of a four-legged animal) Walking, usually to the right, and looking straight ahead with the right forepaw raised from the ground.
adjective:  (obsolete) Currently in use; in vogue.

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