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Meanings of fasce in English
Synonyms
Examples for "fess"
Examples for "fess"
1
You gotta 'fess up and let the chips fall where they may.
2
They'll be much angrier if you fess up at the last minute.
3
I have been a beastly cad and I'm ready to fess up.
4
There's nothing to do but go and 'fess up to Mrs. Kirby.
5
A fess- afessis-YOUdon't need to know what a fess is.
1
Crest-TwoCaducean rods with wings, lying fesse ways or.
2
I bear azure powdered with trefoils or, with a lion's paw of the same armed gules in fesse.
3
The central compartment contains the family arms, viz., Or, on a fesse, gu., between three pellets, a lion passant gardant of the field.
4
Quarterly 1st and 4th Gules, on a fesse wavy argent, between three pitchers double eared or, as many bees volant proper.
5
"I know the arms, madam, and well too: quarterly, three eagles displayed in fesse, and-
Usage of fasce in English
1
In ancient Rome, fasces were carried by lictors in imperial processions and ceremonies.
2
A victorious general, saluted as "Imperator" by his soldiers, had his fasces crowned with laurel.
3
I believe they are called fasces.
4
The fasces were symbols of authority, first used by the Roman kings, then by the consuls, then by the emperors.
5
Meanwhile, if the test of fascism is breaking up labour unions, certain American communists should be presented with fasces crowned with laurel.