Crossword-Solution: FESSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fesse | 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. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “FESSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Horizontal band in an escutcheon. | 1 answer |
| Band on an escutcheon. | 2 answers |
| Heraldic bar | 2 answers |
| Horizontal band, in heraldry. | 2 answers |
| Escutcheon band. | 3 answers |
| Heraldic band. | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with FESSE (5)
The central compartment contains the family arms, viz., Or, on a fesse, gu., between three pellets, a lion passant gardant of the field.
And the knight had upon his shoulder a shield, ingrained with gold, with a fesse of azure blue upon it, and his whole armour was of the same hue.
You can hear the sound of the fesse a great way off, echoing and re-echoing among the mornes: it is not a sharp smacking noise, as the name might seem to imply, but a heavy hollow sound exactly like that of an axe splitting dry timber.
Quarterly 1st and 4th Gules, on a fesse wavy argent, between three pitchers double eared or, as many bees volant proper.
URBANE[329], _nullis fesse laboribus_, URBANE, _nullis victe calumniis_[330], Cui fronte sertum in eruditâ Perpetuò viret et virebit; Quid moliatur gens imilantium, Quid et minetur, solicitus parùm, Vacare solis perge Musis, Juxta animo studiisque felix.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1953–1969).