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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.

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