In heraldry, describes an animal represented in a running or fleeing posture, as if bolting away.
From heraldic French, related to 'bolt' meaning to run away, used in medieval coat-of-arms descriptions.
Medieval heraldry has wild words like 'boltant' that describe dynamic animal poses—it's an ancient system for encoding meaning in symbols that's more complex than modern logos.
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