Meanings
affrontee1
plural affrontees
- One who receives an affront.
the affront given, out at once go affronter and affrontee
1833, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, England and the English
affrontee2
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of affronté.
Gules, a saracen's head erased affrontee filletted argent and azure, on a chief or three roses gules.
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 2382 more examples
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.
1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 250The 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[…]
1986, Marie-Madeleine Gauthier, Highways of the Faith: Relics and Reliquaries from Jerusalem to Compostela, Book Sales
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