Fess

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Heraldry A wide horizontal band forming the middle section of an escutcheon.
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To admit to something; confess, often used with up: "won't fess up to being even vaguely liberal” ( Jonathan Alter).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To confess; to admit.
  • n. A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. See fesse.
  • n. A cap of cloth or felt, often embroidered, made in Russia, near the Black Sea.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield
    • Equivalent
    fesse   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ordinary   
    Form
    fess up   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bess    Es    Etess    Fs    Hess    Hesse    Ins    Jess    Les    Ness   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    flict    bordure    trol    gress    tection    mullets    struction    figuration    tainer    venient   
     
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