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单词 fesse
释义 I. fesse1 Her.|fɛs|
Also 6 fece.
[a. OF. fesse:—L. fascia band; mod.F. has fasce ad. L.]
1. An ordinary formed by two horizontal lines drawn across the middle of the field, and usually containing between them one third of the escutcheon.
1486Bk. St. Albans Her. b ij, All the bastardis of all cot⁓armuris shall bere a fesse.c1500in Q. Eliz. Acad. (1869) 98 Pales, bendis, feces cheveronis.1562Leigh Armorie 113 b, The fielde Argent, a Fesse, Azure.1688R. Holme Armoury i. iii. 34/1 Fesse, Gules.1763Brit. Mag. IV. 238 Argent, on a fess, azure, three lozenges, or.1872Ruskin Eagle's Nest §235 The Fesse, a horizontal bar across the middle of the shield, represents the knight's girdle.
b. in fesse (see quot. 1889). party per fesse: (of the shield) divided by a horizontal line through the middle.
1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 54 He beareth d'Argente, fiue Fusilles in Fesse Gules.1705Hearne Collect. 12 Dec., A Book Expansed in Fesse.1830Robson Brit. Herald. III. Gloss., Fesseways or in fesse.1889Elvin Dict. Herald. 60 In Fesse, a term to express the position of charges when they occupy the position assigned to that ordinary.
2. attrib. and Comb., as fesse-line; fesse-point, the exact centre of the escutcheon; fesse-target (see quot. 1889). Also fesse-ways, fesse-wise adv. = in fesse (see fesse 1 b).
1775Ash, *Fesse line, the line that constitutes the fesse.
1562Leigh Armorie 42 a, The *Fesse poynt.1864Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. v. 23 The heraldic Cross..is produced by the meeting of two vertical with two horizontal lines, about the Fesse point.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 206 Adding to the same a *fesse Target, or scutcheon of pretence.1889Elvin Dict. Herald. 60 Fesse-Target, an old term for Escutcheon of Pretence.
1725Coats Dict. Herald. (ed. 2) 144 *Fesse-ways or in Fesse denotes things born after the Manner of a Fesse.1830[see 1 b].
1775Ash, *Fesse-wise.1864Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. xxi. §11 (ed. 3) 369 Two buckles, their tongues fesse-wise.
II. fesse2 Obs. exc. dial.
A pale blue colour.
1577–87Harrison England iii. viii, The floure [of the Saffron Crocus] beginneth to appeere of a whitish blew fesse, or skie colour.1847–78Halliwell, Fess..a light blue colour. Somerset.
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