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名詞

affrontee (複数形 affrontees)

1. One who receives an affront.
   • 1833, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, England and the English:

     the affront given, out at once go affronter and affrontee

形容詞

affrontee (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of affronté
   • 1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, 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 […]

参照

• “affrontee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.