fesse
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of fesse
C15: from Anglo-French fesse , from Latin fascia band, fillet
Example Sentences
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Pale, Fesse, Chief, Bend, Quarter, and an infinity of the names of charges, do not occur as English surnames.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
When a Bend or Chevron is placed between two Cotises, or when a Fesse or Bar is placed between two Barrulets.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
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)
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 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.
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