Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In art, facing each other; front to front: said of two figures.
- 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 undercrest . - Equivalent forms are affrontée (feminine) andconfronté.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) Face to face, or front to front; facing.
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Examples
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Newcastle ou encore Besiktas est très confiant pour l'Angleterre, qui affronte l'Allemagne en huitième de finale de Coupe du Monde ce dimanche.
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Elle affronte aujourd'hui l'Argentine, dans un match plein de promesses.
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« 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.
Warren Kinsella 2009
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On a wreath, the bust of a man couped and affronte, proper, ducally crowned, or.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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'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.
Marmion Walter Scott 1801
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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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