How do you pronounce saltant?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsæl.tənt/.

saltant

/ˈsæl.tənt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Why the devil, can you deny that you've not a partiality for cats, ha! ha! ha! […] the feline species is preserved—the crest is very evident a kitten saltant, ha! heh! heh!"
""The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat." This speech is an heraldric puzzle. It is pretty clear that "the dozen white luces" apply to the arms of the Lucy family. […] Since our first edition we have received an ingenious explanation from a correspondent, "A Lover of Heraldry." "The arms of the Lucies (now quartered by the Duke of Northumberland) are gules, three lucies hauriant, argent. […] 'The salt fis (i.e. the fish or luce saltant) is an old coat.' Without taking it as a strict and formed adjective, I think in Shallow's mouth the salt luces may well mean the saltant lucies.""
"Two lions saltant as vis-a-vis, but reversed, one with head up, the other down."
"The issue at the bottom is decorated by two lions saltant."
"Crest a squerrill saltant gules upon a rugged staffe party per fece gold and vert the leaues counterchanged, sett upon a wreath siluer and Sable, the mantletts gules doubled siluer, Botoned gold as it appeareth in ye margent."

From Latin saltans, present participle of saltare (“to dance”), v. intens. from salire (“to leap”): compare French sautant. See sally (verb).