Definition of Fesse. Meaning of Fesse. Synonyms of Fesse

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Fesse. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Fesse and, of course, Fesse synonyms and on the right images related to the word Fesse.

Definition of Fesse

Fesse
Fess Fess, Fesse Fesse, n. [OF. fesse, faisse, F. fasce, fr. L. fascia band. See Fascia.] (Her.) A band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries. Fess point (Her.), the exact center of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon.

Meaning of Fesse from wikipedia

- In heraldry, a fess or fesse (from Middle English fesse, Old French faisse, and Latin fascia, "band") is a charge on a coat of arms (or flag) that takes...
- and the eagle are from the arms of Northern Rhodesia; while the dovetail fesse (which links the component parts of the shield), bearing the lion p****ant...
- sometimes also referred to as the sea coconut, love nut, double coconut, coco fesse, or Seyc****es nut. While the functional characteristics of Lodoicea are...
- blazon, of the arms is: Quarterly Gules and barry wavy Argent and Azure a Fesse of the second charged with a Ram statant proper between in chief a Garb...
- the branch: there was another younger branch at Totnes. Arms: — Party per fesse, A. and S., in chief, a greyhound current; in base, an owl within a border...
- head of St. John the Baptist also proper." Escutcheon "Per fesse azure and argent, a fesse counterchanged and three doves of the second, membered gules...
- dated to 1466 with Habsburg motto F.I. A.E.I.O.U. Left part is Habsburg fesse coat of arms and right part is Counts of Celje coat of arms, united under...
- the coat of arms of Botswana as follows: Argent three barrulets wavy in fesse Azure between in chief three cogwheels proper, one above engaged with two...
- novel Pantagruel, he wrote "femme folle à la messe et femme molle à la fesse" ("insane woman at M****, woman with flabby buttocks"). Spoonerisms are named...
- (Parr). 3rd; Or, three water-bougets Sable (Ross of Kendal). 4th; Vairy, a fesse Gules (Marmion). 5th; Azure, three chevrons interlaced in base, a chief...