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cadre duodénal
le développé de la pièce / sur-longueur

Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

un antérieur levé

English translation:

with one (fore)paw raised

Added to glossary by Nathalie Stewart
Jan 6, 2017 01:14
7 yrs ago
French term

un antérieur levé

French to English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Rare cuve baptismale en pierre calcaire sculptée en fort relief sur trois côtés. Façade ornée de cinq arcatures en plein cintre avec arc central plus important souligné d'un ruban plissé, les autres de billettes, écoinçons meublés de rosaces fleuronnées. Cet arc médian est appuyé sur des colonnettes aux chapiteaux sculptés de griffons affrontés, un antérieur levé.

The pictures seem to show an animal raising a front leg. Maybe this is heraldic terminology.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +4 with one (fore)paw raised
Change log

Jan 7, 2017 23:41: Nathalie Stewart changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/30255">Andre de Vries's</a> old entry - "un antérieur levé"" to ""with one (fore)paw raised""

Jan 7, 2017 23:52: Nathalie Stewart changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/2305805">Nathalie Stewart's</a> old entry - "un antérieur levé"" to ""with one (fore)paw raised""

Jan 7, 2017 23:55: Nathalie Stewart changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/2305805">Nathalie Stewart's</a> old entry - "un antérieur levé"" to ""with one (fore)paw raised""

Jan 7, 2017 23:57: Nathalie Stewart changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/2305805">Nathalie Stewart's</a> old entry - "un antérieur levé"" to ""with one (fore)paw raised""

Discussion

B D Finch Jan 6, 2017:
Field I've changed the field to Art etc., as this is, not really about religion.
Andre de Vries (asker) Jan 6, 2017:
The whole text with illustrations can be seen here http://www.fligny-haute-epoque.com/fr/cuve-baptismale-6/

Proposed translations

+4
13 mins
Selected

with one (fore)paw raised

two griffins facing each other, with one forepaw raised
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_(heraldry)

(or)
two winged lion-griffins, facing each other and each raising a paw
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/coll...

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Note added at 8 hrs (2017-01-06 10:01:08 GMT)
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OK - there's a difference, though, between raising one paw and raising one claw... In this case it's clearly the paw.
Note from asker:
Sounds right. Maybe claws if their griffins.
Peer comment(s):
agree Tony M
4 hrs
Thank you!
agree B D Finch
8 hrs
Thank you!
agree Charles Davis
9 hrs
Thank you!
agree philgoddard : I thought maybe there was a word missing before antérieur, but no: http://fr.mimi.hu/cheval/anterieur.html
15 hrs
Thank you! Yes, I wondered about that too, at first...
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