affrontee
See also: affrontée
English
Noun
affrontee (plural affrontees)
- One who receives an affront.
- 1833, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, England and the English:
- the affront given, out at once go affronter and affrontee
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Adjective
affrontee (not comparable)
- Alternative form of affronté
- 1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical : with the Truc Ant of Blazon, According to the Most Approved Heralds in Europe : Illustrated with Suitable Examples of Armorial Figures, and Atchievements of the Most Considerable Svinames and Families in Scotland, Etc, Together with Historical and Genealogical Memorials Relative Thereto, page 250:
- 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.
- 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:
- Gules, a saracen's head erased affrontee filletted argent and azure, on a chief or three roses gules.
- 1986, Marie-Madeleine Gauthier, Highways of the Faith: Relics and Reliquaries from Jerusalem to Compostela, Book Sales:
- 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 […]
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References
- affrontee in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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