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Meanings of fesse in English

Portuguese
faixa
Catalan
faixa (heràldica)
Spanish
faja
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(Heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.

        faixa
        Synonyms
        Examples for "fess"
        Examples for "fess"
        1
        You gotta 'fess up and let the chips fall where they may.
        Ebony
        2
        They'll be much angrier if you fess up at the last minute.
        Ebony
        3
        I have been a beastly cad and I'm ready to fess up.
        Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman
        4
        There's nothing to do but go and 'fess up to Mrs. Kirby.
        Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
        5
        A fess- afessis-YOUdon't need to know what a fess is.
        The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
        Usage of fesse in English
        1
        Crest-TwoCaducean rods with wings, lying fesse ways or.
        John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne
        2
        I bear azure powdered with trefoils or, with a lion's paw of the same armed gules in fesse.
        Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 07
        3
        The central compartment contains the family arms, viz., Or, on a fesse, gu., between three pellets, a lion passant gardant of the field.
        Men of Invention and Industry
        4
        Quarterly 1st and 4th Gules, on a fesse wavy argent, between three pitchers double eared or, as many bees volant proper.
        John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne
        5
        "I know the arms, madam, and well too: quarterly, three eagles displayed in fesse, and-
        Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
        6
        "More trouble for the fesse checkey, Baron," said he, indicating the point whereto the troops had gone.
        Doom Castle
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for fesse
        Portuguese
        faixa
        Spanish
        faja
        Fesse through the time