fesse
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of fesse
C15: from Anglo-French fesse , from Latin fascia band, fillet
Example Sentences
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The Fesse is a band athwart the shield, filling, according to the rules of the heraldic writers, a third part of it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
The Pale.—Like the Fesse, this Ordinary occupies rather less than a central third of the field, but it is vertical in its position instead of horizontal.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
Hee bearth A. a Fesse G. betweene 3.
From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Carew, Richard
His arms were a Fesse chequy between three crescents impaling a chevron three stags.
From Shakespeare's Family by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
The "Visitation of Suffolk," notes: "In the shield of Lady Elizabeth Morrison, daughter of Nicholas Clerk, of Weston, in Oxfordshire, the Ardern arms are quartered, a Fesse chequy or and azure, at Great Saxham, Suffolk."
From Shakespeare's Family by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
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