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affrontee en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From affront + -ee.

Meanings

1. One who receives an affront.
   • the affront given, out at once go affronter and affrontee 1833, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, England and the English:

Forms

affrontee en · ADJ · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of affronté.
   alt of affronté
   • The regular, repeated, symmetrical pattern features two peacocks affrontee with tails spread above their heads along two arcs of a circle, forming a fan on the axis of which a small tree with palmettes stands in a pot with two smaller birds facing away[…] 1986, Marie-Madeleine Gauthier, Highways of the Faith: Relics and Reliquaries from Jerusalem to Compostela, Book Sales:
   • HAGE of BIMERSIDE, an old Family in the Shire of Berwick; of which before: Azure, a Saltier, between two Stars in Chief and Base; and in the Flanks, two Crescents affrontee Argent, i. e. a Decrescent and Increscent. 1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 250:
   • Gules, a saracen's head erased affrontee filletted argent and azure, on a chief or three roses gules. 1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy: Being the Arms Borne by Or Attributed to the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales with an Ordinary of the Coats Described and of Other Episcopal Arms, page 238: