confronté
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See also: confronte
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French confronté (“confronted”), past participle of confronter (“to confront”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏnfrŭnʹtā, IPA(key): /kɒnˈfɹʌnteɪ/,[1]
Adjective[edit]
confronté (not comparable)
- (heraldry, of two animals)[1] Face-to-face; facing each other; fornenst.[1][2][3]
- Synonym: (but this also has another meaning) affronté
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “‖confronté, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
- ^ Burke’s Peerage and Gentry, A-to-Z Guide to Heraldic Terms — C
- ^ Universal Technological Dictionary by George Crabb (1823)
Facing one another, or full-faced
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Participle[edit]
confronté (feminine confrontée, masculine plural confrontés, feminine plural confrontées)
Further reading[edit]
- “confronté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
confronté
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