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affronted

 

Opposite of addorsed. Identical figures or animals facing each other, e.g. with busts on each side of an opening, as in the tower of Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson's St Vincent Street Church, Glasgow (1857–9).

Affronted Detail from the tower of St Vincent Street Church, Glasgow, by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson
Affronted Detail from the tower of St Vincent Street Church, Glasgow, by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson

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