"regardant" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Anglo-Norman regardant, Middle French regardant.",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
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          "ref": "1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 25",
          "text": "The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue.",
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        {
          "ref": "1993, John Banville, Ghosts",
          "text": "I see a forked beast squatting on the midden of the world, red-eyed, regardant, gnawing on a shinbone: poor, dumb destroyer.",
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        "With the head turned toward the back of the body."
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        "(heraldry, of an animal) With the head turned toward the back of the body."
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          "ref": "1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, II.3",
          "text": "To horse, to horse: thus once Eurydice, / With looks regardant, did the Thracian gaze […].",
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        "Watchful, attentive; contemplative."
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      "word": "reguardant"
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  "word": "regardant"
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        "With the head turned toward the back of the body."
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        "(heraldry, of an animal) With the head turned toward the back of the body."
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