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fesse
/ ɛ /
noun
heraldry an ordinary consisting of a horizontal band across a shield, conventionally occupying a third of its length and being wider than a bar
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fesse1
Example Sentences
The arms of Pinkeny being an indented fesse, we may see in this shield the parted arms of husband and wife—the latter being probably a Basset.
The doctor who received him perceived that he had upon la fesse droite a mass of odd little red marks.
The pale is like the fesse, except that its direction is perpendicular.
In Seychelles creole, the fruit is called "coco fesse" which crudely translates as "bum nut".
Bar, in heraldry, an ordinary resembling the fesse, stretching like it horizontally across the shield but narrower.
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