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Affronté

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Face to face, or with the fronts facing each other. not-comparable

    "... 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[…]"

  2. 2
    Looking frontwise, or toward the viewer. not-comparable

    "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[…] ]"

Etymology

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

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