at gaze

English

Prepositional phrase

at gaze

  1. (chiefly heraldry) Gazing; standing so as to stare (especially of deer).
    • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p. 52:
      They were prick-eared animals, roused by her voice from their business and standing now at gaze.
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