fesse

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fess ¹

also fesse F0089400 (fĕs)n. Heraldry A wide horizontal band forming the middle section of an escutcheon.

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[Middle English fesse, from Old French, from Latin fascia, band.]

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fess ²

F0089400 (fĕs)intr.v. fessed, fess·ing, fess·es Informal To admit to something; confess, often used with up: "won't fess up to being even vaguely liberal" (Jonathan Alter).

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[Short for confess.]

fesse

(fɛs) or

fess

n (Heraldry) heraldry an ordinary consisting of a horizontal band across a shield, conventionally occupying a third of its length and being wider than a bar[C15: from Anglo-French fesse, from Latin fascia band, fillet]

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Noun

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fesse - (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shieldfessordinary - (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shieldsheraldry - the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies