Fess Definition

fĕs
fessed, fesses
noun
A horizontal band forming the middle third of a shield.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • fesse
verb
To admit to something; confess, often used with up:
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Fess

Noun

Singular:
fess
Plural:
fesses

Origin of Fess

  • Middle English fesse from Old French from Latin fascia band

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French fesse, an alteration of faisse, from Latin fascia

    From Wiktionary

  • From confess, by shortening

    From Wiktionary

  • Short for confess

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fess Sentence Examples

  • At first sight the shield seems to show A fess between three?

  • The 1889 arms orginally had an ermine fess from the arms of the Calthorpe family, Lords of the Manor of Edgbaston.

  • The wavy fess represents the River Calder which, at the time the arms were granted, was the boundary between Yorkshire and Lancashire.

  • The blue wave on the white fess represents the River Darent, from which the town of Dartford took its name.

  • Culture quot fess being at a the wsop runs.

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