Fĕsse or Fĕss, n.

noun

(fĕs), n. [O. Fr. fesse, N. Fr. Fĕss } fasce, from Lat. fascia, band, girth. See FASCIA.] (Her.) 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.