couchant

IPA: kˈaʊtʃʌnt

Examples of "couchant" in Sentences

Lorsque au soleil couchant les rivières sont roses
In Curzon's figure the lion is standing, not 'couchant', as stated by
* And if descriptivism is rampant, would prescriptivism be "couchant"?
“The crest is a Stag couchant, vulnerated through the neck by a broad arrow; on his side is a Martlett for a difference.”
I asked, peering at the crest, with its faded leopard couchant, and the printing below, more legible than the handwriting.
In one courtyard, a mangy, flea-ridden griffon lay couchant, chained to the wall, flies buzzing around its slow-blinking head.
a small pug-dog "couchant" before it, resolved to guard the treasure even at the sacrifice of life -- and a front-door standing invitingly half-open.
In the aisle stands another altar-tomb, which has the sides panelled and adorned with shields of arms and bears the figure of an earlier Sir Thomas Markenfield, clad in armour of the period between Poitiers and Agincourt, and wearing a very curious collar of park palings with a stag couchant in front, possibly
How one couchant beast, with its imperturbable gravitas, a heraldic chunk of London itself, moved without lifting a paw, from the site on the south bank of the Thames being cleared for the Festival of Britain in 1951, to Waterloo Station with its martial trappings, and on to its present eminence alongside the decommissioned County Hall.