A variant spelling of addorsed, meaning placed back-to-back in heraldic designs.
Alternate form of 'addorsed' using the suffix '-ed' from Old French 'dossé,' both variants appearing in heraldic texts from the 15th century onward.
The fact that heraldry had multiple spellings for the same position shows how new these special terms were—language inventors hadn't standardized yet, so 'addorsed' and 'addossed' meant the same thing on different knights' shields.
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