affronté

text: ... 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[…]

ref: 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:

type: quote

text: […] earliest designs were geometric, birds affronté (facing one another), peacocks, pomegranates, unicorns, pelicans, and […]

ref: 1910, Amy Milton Kohlsaat, Old Lace Manual, page 11:

links: heraldry heraldry

links:
Face to face
face to face#English

links: front front

raw_glosses: (heraldry) Face to face, or with the fronts facing each other.

text: 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[…] ]

ref: 1889, The Calvert Papers, page 42:

text: […]; 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).

ref: 2010 01, Wm. E. Baumgaertner, Squires, Knights, Barons, Kings: War and Politics in Fifteenth Century England, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

links: frontwise frontwise

raw_glosses: (heraldry) Looking frontwise, or toward the viewer.

pos: adj

en-adj

expansion: affronté (not comparable)

forms:
affrontée (alternative)
affrontee (alternative)
affronty (alternative)

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

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affronté

expansion: Borrowed from French affronté


affronté

links: affronter affronter#French

pos: verb

fr-past participle

expansion: affronté (feminine affrontée, masculine plural affrontés, feminine plural affrontées)

forms:
affrontée (feminine)
affrontés (masculine plural)
affrontées (feminine plural)

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-affronté.wav