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affronté

affronté adjective: face to face, or with the fronts facing each other.

Adjective

affronté (not comparable)

  1. Face to face, or with the fronts facing each other.
    • ... 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...
    • […] earliest designs were geometric, birds affronté (facing one another), peacocks, pomegranates, unicorns, pelicans, and […]1910, Amy Milton Kohlsaat, Old Lace Manual, page 11
    Synonyms:
    confronté
    Antonyms:
    addorsed
  2. Looking frontwise, or toward the viewer.
    • 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
    • […]; 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

Synonyms of affronté

Antonyms

Forms of affronté

alternative formaffrontée
alternative formaffrontee
alternative formaffronty

Origin of affronté

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

Questions about affronté

What does affronté mean?
Affronté means face to face, or with the fronts facing each other.
What part of speech is affronté?
Affronté is an adjective.

Words near affronté in the dictionary

  1. affrontiveness
  2. affrontment
  3. affrontments
  4. affronts
  5. affronty
  6. affronté
  7. affrontée
  8. affs
  9. afft.
  10. affts.
  11. affulgence

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