Fess vs Feis - What's the difference?
fess | feis |
To confess; to admit.
(heraldiccharge) A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
* 1892 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor’, Norton 2005 p.294:
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 420:
(Irish) An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
(Irish) An Irish gathering at which new laws were decreed, as well as folk music, dancing, and sports.
As nouns the difference between fess and feis
is that fess is (heraldiccharge) a horizontal band across the middle of the shield while feis is (irish) an irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.As a verb fess
is to confess; to admit.fess
English
Etymology 1
From (confess), by shorteningVerb
(es)Derived terms
* fess up English clippingsEtymology 2
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* fesseNoun
(es)- 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.
- 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 .