created 2025-04-25, & modified, =this.modified
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Attitude describes the position in which a figure is emblazoned as a charge, a supporter, or a crest.
Direction
- dexter - to the viewer’s left
- sinister or contourny - creature facing the viewer’s right.
- Affronté - faces the viewer
- En arrière - Back to the viewer.
- Guardant - sideways but facing viewer.
- Regardant - head turned back.
Rampant - old french rearing up.
Passant - old french striding
Sejant - on haunches
Couchant - lying down with head raised.
Courant - running at full stride.
Coward - turning tail, between the hind legs.
Dormant - lying down, head lowered.
Salient - leaping.
Statant - standing.
Mourne - a lion depicted without teeth, claws or tongue. From old french morner, a ring placed over the lance from Latin mora - sword guard.
Defamed - without tail.
Disjointed - rampant with detachment
Forcené - when applied to horse-like animals, where the animal rears up.
Volant - a bird volant faces
Serpents
Nowed - knotted. Glissant - gilding in undulant posture. Tergiant - back to the viewer, opposite of affronty.
Combatant - fighting, in profile facing one another rampant. Addorsed - back to back .