aversant
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin āversantem, from āversāns.
Adjective
[edit]aversant (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Turned to show the back: said of a hand (or gauntlet).
- 1902, Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms and Others, page 204:
- [...] bore, sable three sinister gauntlets aversant [...]
- 1979, W. E. Hampton, Memorials of the Wars of the Roses: A Biographical Guide:
- Gules, a fess azure between 4 hands (mains) sinister aversant or.