or fesse
Heraldry a horizontal band forming the middle third of a shield
Origin of fess
Middle English fesse from Old French from Classical Latin fascia, a band, fasciafess
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fess
also fesse
noun
HeraldryA wide horizontal band forming the middle section of an escutcheon.
Origin of fess
Middle English fesse from Old French from Latin fascia band
fess1
intransitive verb
fessed, fess·ing, fess·es InformalTo admit to something; confess, often used with up: “won't fess up to being even vaguely liberal” ( Jonathan Alter )
Origin of fess
Short for confessTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present fesses, present participle fessing, simple past and past participle fessed)
- To confess; to admit.
Origin
From confess, by shortening
Noun
(plural fesses)
- (heraldry) A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
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