Meaning of addorse | Babel Free

Definitions

To place back-to-back, to place with the back to (something else's back).

Examples

“I replied (out of a former letter from your Lordship) with some marvel why this Signory did not by their own⟳ resident in England motion the matter⟳ to the resident there of the States rather than addorse it upon his Majesty.”

“... arranged pairs of imaginary beasts; each faces a mirror-image counterpart along a “hind” axis. The band can thus be read⟳ in either of two ways and at the same time: as pairs of affronting and / or addorsing griffins.”

“Then there at the step, briskly addorsing themselves, the master swings back to the center and drains the scourings like⟳ a thirsty housewife as he tidies up his formal mess, while the butler returns his less hallowed vessels to the[…]”

“The addorsing of a French Gothic outer portal to a Byzantine-style inner portal illustrates Genoa's position between west and east at a crossroads in the Mediterranean. Along the north wall of the cathedral, Byzantine-style frescoes of[…]”

“In the spatial language of Hindu temple architecture and sculpture, addorsing can signify that the two items joined back-to-back are aspects of the same beings or principle. Here that arrangement sets up a figural and spatial analog of[…]”

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