Definition of "affronté"

affronté

adjective
not comparable
1. (heraldry) Face to face, or with the fronts facing each other.
  Quotations
  ... viz. quarterly, first and fourth gules, on a cheveron argent, a rose betwixt two lions affronté gules, for Hepburn; second and third argent, an orle gules, and in chief three martlets sable, for Rutherford; crest, a horse […]
  1804, Alexander Nisbet, A system of heraldry, speculative and practical: with the true art of Blazon ... Illustrated with suitable examples of armorial figures, and achievements of the most considerable surnames and families in Scotland ..., page 163
  […] earliest designs were geometric, birds affronté (facing one another), peacocks, pomegranates, unicorns, pelicans, and […]
  1910, Amy Milton Kohlsaat, Old Lace Manual, page 11
2. (heraldry) Looking frontwise, or toward the viewer.
  Quotations
  The crest of SCOTLAND [ - A lion affronté gules, crowned imperially Or, in the dexter paw a sceptre erect, surmounted by a fleur de lis gold; in the […] ]
  1889, The Calvert Papers, page 42
  […] ; and (5) an ostrich feather with a scroll on the quill reading “Sovereign”, supported by a lion sejeant-affronté (seated, looking towards the viewer), but with the dexter paw holding the quill (Rothery, p.202).
  2010 01, Wm. E. Baumgaertner, Squires, Knights, Barons, Kings: War and Politics in Fifteenth Century England, Trafford Publishing