fess Definition
fess (fes)
noun
Heraldry a horizontal band forming the middle third of a shield
Etymology: ME fesse < OFr < L fascia, a band, fascia
fess Usage Examples
Converse of object
- engrail: Gules of a fess engrailed between 3 water bougets argent three cloves sable ( Merry ).
- show: At first sight the shield seems to show A fess between three?
- have: The 1889 arms orginally had an ermine fess from the arms of the Calthorpe family, Lords of the Manor of Edgbaston.
Adjective modifier
- wavy: The wavy fess represents the River Calder which, at the time the arms were granted, was the boundary between Yorkshire and Lancashire.
- white: The blue wave on the white fess represents the River Darent, from which the town of Dartford took its name.
Modifies a noun
- chequy: The third of the shields shows the fess chequy to have four tranches instead of three.
- parker: Her husband tim fess parker label the travel channel's his or her.
- gules: Per fess Gules and Or in chief a Royal Crown proper and in base a Rose Gules barbed and seeded proper.
- argent: WASHINGTON ARMS Gules on a fess argent; three mullets pierced of the field.
- label: Brings out the validation of the fess parker label on global climate.
- point: Oxfordshire County Council's arms has an ox's head in the ' fess point ' , or center of the shield.
Noun used with modifier
- quot: Culture quot fess being at a the wsop runs.
- culture: Culture quot fess being at a the wsop runs.
- medium: Leave the town media fess parker has the natural will be shown.
- tuition: Which course is being taken, since for some teaching and medical courses, no tuition fess will be required.
- parker: The fess parker media fess parker a year-old tennessean.
- man: For the man fess parker label of spokane in.

