confronté
See also: confronte
English
Etymology
From French confronté (“confronted”), past participle of confronter (“to confront”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏnfrŭnʹtā, IPA(key): /kɒnˈfɹʌnteɪ/,[1]
Adjective
confronté (not comparable)
- (heraldry, of two animals)[1] Face-to-face; facing each other; fornenst.[1][2][3]
References
- “‖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
Verb
confronté m (feminine singular confrontée, masculine plural confrontés, feminine plural confrontées)
- past participle of confronter
Spanish
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