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affronté en · ADJ

Etymology

Borrowed from French affronté, past participle of affronter (“to confront, face”).

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Face to face, or with the fronts facing each other.
   • […] earliest designs were geometric, birds affronté (facing one another), peacocks, pomegranates, unicorns, pelicans, and […] 1910, Amy Milton Kohlsaat, Old Lace Manual, page 11:
   • ... viz. quarterly, first and fourth gules, on a cheveron argent, a rose betwixt two lions affronté gules, for Hepburn; second and third argent, an orle gules, and in chief three martlets sable, for Rutherford; crest, a horse[…] 1804, Alexander Nisbet, A system of heraldry, speculative and practical: with the true art of Blazon ... Illustrated with suitable examples of armorial figures, and achievements of the most considerable surnames and families in Scotland ..., page 163:
2. (not-comparable) Looking frontwise, or toward the viewer.
   • […]; and (5) an ostrich feather with a scroll on the quill reading “Sovereign”, supported by a lion sejeant-affronté (seated, looking towards the viewer), but with the dexter paw holding the quill (Rothery, p.202). 2010 01, Wm. E. Baumgaertner, Squires, Knights, Barons, Kings: War and Politics in Fifteenth Century England, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
   • The crest of SCOTLAND [ - A lion affronté gules, crowned imperially Or, in the dexter paw a sceptre erect, surmounted by a fleur de lis gold; in the[…] ] 1889, The Calvert Papers, page 42:

Forms

Antonyms

addorsed

Synonyms

affrontant · affronted · confronté