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fess

fess

English

Verb

fess (third-person singular simple present fesses, present participle fessing, simple past and past participle fessed)

  1. To confess; to admit.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French fesse, an alteration of faisse, from Latin fascia

Alternative forms

Noun

fess (plural fesses)

  1. (heraldry) A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
    • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor’, Norton 2005 p.294:
      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.
    • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 420:
      The space where the arms of Wolsey used to be is being repainted with his own newly granted arms: azure, on a fess between three lions rampant or, a rose gules, barbed vert, between two Cornish choughs proper.
Translations

Hungarian

Etymology

From Viennese German fesch (smart, stylish), from English fashionable.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛʃː]

Adjective

fess (comparative fessebb, superlative legfessebb)

  1. (colloquial, dated) smart, stylish, chic

Old Irish

Verb

·fess

  1. passive singular perfect prototonic of ro·finnadar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
·fess ·ḟess ·fess
pronounced with /-v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.