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nounfɛsfɛs Heraldry An ordinary in the form of a broad horizontal stripe across the middle of the shield. Example sentencesExamples - The family arms were; ‘Argent, a fess between six crosslets fitchee sable.’
- Fess, bend, chevron and pall describes the way the shield is divided and division can depend on the metals, colors and objects within it.
- A checkered band of blue and silver (called 'fess') is placed across the center of the shield and this is taken from the Arms of Stewart to denote descent from that family.
Phrases Across the middle third of the field. Example sentencesExamples - Two or more charges arranged in a horizontal row are blazoned in fess.
- On Gawsworth church tower this shield has, in addition, two lozenges in fess.
Origin Late 15th century: from Old French fesse, alteration of faisse, from Latin fascia 'band'. Compare with fascia. Rhymes acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes verb fɛsfɛs [no object]fess upinformal Confess; own up. ‘Fess up,’ she demanded. ‘What were you doing in Peter's private office?’ Example sentencesExamples - So then, all right, he's reading into you that you're not fessing up now because it looks bad for you.
- But yesterday the BBC finally fessed up and admitted that, yes, Dr. Kelly had been the source of what it continues to maintain was an accurate report.
- Then he fessed up that I was being considered for the show.
- I am going to let all the grass die, all the rubbish pile up, let the homeless people come back, and I will not be the maid to clean up until it is fessed up who is actually responsible.
- It has always been about the study, with a thin (mighty thin) veneer of job usefulness, but I haven't fessed up to that before.
- It's a travesty that she's in jail at this point and she's protecting some source, who is not in jail or who is not even fessing up to relieve her of that responsibility.
- If you see a right- or left-wing writer fessing up to their own side's errors or mistakes, let me know.
- Anyway, I think it's time I stop apologizing and instead start fessing up, with like, really unabashed, reckless, so-not-indie abandon.
- For five glorious minutes, the never-to-be-heard-from-again Sugar Hill act Chilly Kids not only fesses up to this, but revels in it.
- At least I have fessed up (if only to myself, and now to you).
- A month or two later, Dennis MacShane was fessing up.
- The format may have remained the same - with weekly tasks, shopping budgets, fessing up in the diary room, and nominations for eviction - but the contestants have become acutely aware that nothing they do or say is really private.
- Yesterday's mention of my yearning for someone who likes the smell of pesto has had people fessing up to a basil bias all over the place.
- And I am surprised the male family members are not just fessing up.
- He fessed up to it, he didn't hide behind daddy.
- The baby he's having with the other woman will be married before he fesses up.
- Yesterday I took a mild swipe at the Christians for not fessing up to their omnipotent God being responsible for the earthquake.
- In that column, he went on at length about how the petroleum industry's bad because it encourages car dependency and other unsustainable practices, without fessing up to his own complicity in car culture.
- I have to say, most are either really honest, or really not fessing up.
- Instead he fessed up to the civil offence of breaching his duties as a company director - under the Corporations Act (here).
Synonyms own up, admit guilt, plead guilty, accept blame, accept responsibility, be completely honest, tell the truth, tell all, make a clean breast of it, unbosom oneself
Origin Early 19th century: shortening of confess. nounfɛsfes Heraldry An ordinary in the form of a broad horizontal stripe across the middle of the shield. Example sentencesExamples - A checkered band of blue and silver (called 'fess') is placed across the center of the shield and this is taken from the Arms of Stewart to denote descent from that family.
- The family arms were; ‘Argent, a fess between six crosslets fitchee sable.’
- Fess, bend, chevron and pall describes the way the shield is divided and division can depend on the metals, colors and objects within it.
Phrases Across the middle third of the field. Example sentencesExamples - On Gawsworth church tower this shield has, in addition, two lozenges in fess.
- Two or more charges arranged in a horizontal row are blazoned in fess.
Origin Late 15th century: from Old French fesse, alteration of faisse, from Latin fascia ‘band’. Compare with fascia. verbfesfɛs [no object]fess upinformal Confess; own up. “Fess up,” she demanded. “What were you doing in Peter's private office?” Example sentencesExamples - Yesterday's mention of my yearning for someone who likes the smell of pesto has had people fessing up to a basil bias all over the place.
- It's a travesty that she's in jail at this point and she's protecting some source, who is not in jail or who is not even fessing up to relieve her of that responsibility.
- If you see a right- or left-wing writer fessing up to their own side's errors or mistakes, let me know.
- It has always been about the study, with a thin (mighty thin) veneer of job usefulness, but I haven't fessed up to that before.
- Anyway, I think it's time I stop apologizing and instead start fessing up, with like, really unabashed, reckless, so-not-indie abandon.
- For five glorious minutes, the never-to-be-heard-from-again Sugar Hill act Chilly Kids not only fesses up to this, but revels in it.
- But yesterday the BBC finally fessed up and admitted that, yes, Dr. Kelly had been the source of what it continues to maintain was an accurate report.
- And I am surprised the male family members are not just fessing up.
- At least I have fessed up (if only to myself, and now to you).
- The format may have remained the same - with weekly tasks, shopping budgets, fessing up in the diary room, and nominations for eviction - but the contestants have become acutely aware that nothing they do or say is really private.
- He fessed up to it, he didn't hide behind daddy.
- The baby he's having with the other woman will be married before he fesses up.
- Then he fessed up that I was being considered for the show.
- Instead he fessed up to the civil offence of breaching his duties as a company director - under the Corporations Act (here).
- In that column, he went on at length about how the petroleum industry's bad because it encourages car dependency and other unsustainable practices, without fessing up to his own complicity in car culture.
- Yesterday I took a mild swipe at the Christians for not fessing up to their omnipotent God being responsible for the earthquake.
- I am going to let all the grass die, all the rubbish pile up, let the homeless people come back, and I will not be the maid to clean up until it is fessed up who is actually responsible.
- A month or two later, Dennis MacShane was fessing up.
- So then, all right, he's reading into you that you're not fessing up now because it looks bad for you.
- I have to say, most are either really honest, or really not fessing up.
Synonyms own up, admit guilt, plead guilty, accept blame, accept responsibility, be completely honest, tell the truth, tell all, make a clean breast of it, unbosom oneself
Origin Early 19th century: shortening of confess. |