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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In art, facing each other; front to front: said of two figures. This was a frequent mode of representing animal and other figures in Oriental and early Greek art, as, for example, in Assyrian and Hittite sculptures, the so-called lions of Mycenæ, and the sphinxes of the temple epistyle of Assos.
- Specifically, in heraldry, applied to animals represented front to front, or aspectant: opposed to adorsed;
- facing the spectator directly, as the lion in the royal crest of Scotland, not with merely the head turned outward. See gardant and cut under crest.
- Equivalent forms are affrontée (feminine) andconfronté.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Her.) Face to face, or front to front; facing.
Examples
“Newcastle ou encore Besiktas est très confiant pour l'Angleterre, qui affronte l'Allemagne en huitième de finale de Coupe du Monde ce dimanche.”
“Elle affronte aujourd'hui l'Argentine, dans un match plein de promesses.”
“« Signe frappant de la délicatesse du contexte politique que le parti affronte, son chef Jack Layton a refusé de répondre aux questions une fois terminée sa courte déclaration en ce sens.”
“On a wreath, the bust of a man couped and affronte, proper, ducally crowned, or.”
Internet Archive: Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
“a lion sejant affronte gules crowned or, '&c. The adoption of the thistle as the national Scottish emblem is wrapt in obscurity, although an early poet attributes it to a suggestion of Venus. line 153.”
“Malgré cela, j'y retournerai; le pays vaut la peine que l'on affronte les cailloux, les ornières, les dos d'âne at les dérapages sur le sol mouillé, comme je l'ai trop trouvé, hélas! _ ”
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