fess

Noun

fess (plural fesses)

1. In heraldry a horizontal band across the middle of the shield.

   • 1892: Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral—Hum! Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor’ (Norton 2005 p.294)

4 letters in word "fess": E F S S.

No anagrams for fess found in this word list.

Words found within fess:

ef efs es ess fe fes

• Definitions:
• {See FESSE.]
• A heraldic ordinary consisting of a wide horizontal bar across the central third of the shield.
• a division of a shield formed by two lines drawn horizontally and occupying one third of it
• (heraldry.) A wide band horizontally crossing the middle of the shield.
• A fess is a wide horizontal stripe across the middle of the shield. It usually is 1/3rd to 1/5th the height of the shield. A fess is classed as an ordinary, and has as it's diminutives the bar and the barrulet.
• fesse: (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield
• In heraldry, a fess is a charge on a coat of arms that takes the form of a band running horizontally and centrally across the shield. Writers disagree in how much of the shield's surface is to be covered by the fess, ranging from one-fifth to one-third. ...

• fescues ←
• fescue ←
• fescennine ←
• fess
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