fesse

British  

/ fɛs /

noun

1. heraldry an ordinary consisting of a horizontal band across a shield, conventionally occupying a third of its length and being wider than a bar

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Etymology

Origin of fesse

C15: from Anglo-French fesse , from Latin fascia band, fillet

Example Sentences

Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, bore “Gules with a fesse and six crosslets gold.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

‘Argent, on a mount an oak-tree proper; over all a fesse sable, charged with three regal crowns proper.’

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

Devereux bore “Gules a fesse silver with three roundels silver in the chief.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

The indented fesse on the red shield of the Dynhams has four such fusils of ermine.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

The doctor who received him perceived that he had upon la fesse droite a mass of odd little red marks.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James