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What does couchant mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word couchant? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (of an animal) Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching.
  2. (heraldry) Represented as crouching with the head raised.
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Just before her up there in the clouds is a huge lion, couchant.
She began to picture herself traveling with Ralph in a land where these monsters were couchant in the sand.
There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
Or again, have you ever watched fine collie dogs couchant at twenty yards' distance?
Four rusticated columns support an arched pediment and two couchant lions holding shields.
Sordello, that noble and disdainful Lombard, eyes us from afar like a couchant lion.

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