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Heraldic band
Answer for the clue "Heraldic band ", 5 letters:
fesse
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of fess English) (gloss: horizontal band in heraldry)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield [syn: fess ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ordinary \Or"di*na*ry\, n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z). (Law) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation. (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, ...
Usage examples of fesse.
The two heads, one hoary and aged and the other young and bright, leaned together as the duke of Avaria and the duchess of Fesse bent close in intimate conversation The door closed, cutting them off, and Hanna felt rushed along as Hugh led his retinue at a brisk pace under shaded porticos and out across the blistering hot courtyard that separated the regnal palace from the one where the skopos dwelled.
Behind these paraded the banners of his noble companions, those who had chosen, or been commanded, to accompany his expedition: Duchess Liutgard of Fesse, Helmut Vil-lam, Duke Burchard of Avaria, and a host of other lords and ladies.
Ungrian retainers, Lord Wichman, the Polenie duke Boleslas, Hrodik and Druthmar, Brigida with her levies from Avaria, a lady from Fesse, and several nobles from the marchlands who had joined to avenge the damage done to their lands by the Quman.
Behind them came the king himself and his Closest companions: Duke Burchard of Avaria, Duchess Liutgard of Fesse, Margrave Villam, several Aostan nobles, and of course his stalwart Eagle, Hathui.
Saony, Fesse, and Avaria so that the lords and clerics and common folk can see that order has returned to our land.
Ungrian retainers, Lord Wichman, the Polenie duke Boleslas, Hrodik and Druthmar, Brigida with her levies from Avaria, a lady from Fesse, and several nobles from the marchlands who had joined to avenge the damage done to their lands by the Quman.
The two heads, one hoary and aged and the other young and bright, leaned together as the duke of Avaria and the duchess of Fesse bent close in intimate conversation The door closed, cutting them off, and Hanna felt rushed along as Hugh led his retinue at a brisk pace under shaded porticos and out across the blistering hot courtyard that separated the regnal palace from the one where the skopos dwelled.
Servants dressed in tabards sewn with the gold lion of Fesse lingered nervously beside the side doors.
Liutgard of Fesse and Burchard of Avaria ride at Henry's side in Aosta.
She had asked about Duchess Liutgard of Fesse and Duke Burchard of Avaria.
When Garrison had rolled the girl over and parted her fesses, he'd found the back passage already lubricated for him.
As if that were not to be enough for anyone but little headway, if any, was made in solving the wasnottobe crime cunundrum when a child of Maam, Festy King, of a family long and honourably associated with the tar and feather industries, who gave an address in old plomansch Mayo of the Saxons in the heart of a foulfamed potheen district, was subsequently haled up at the Old Bailey on the calends of Mars, under an incompatibly framed indictment of both the counts (from each equinoxious points of view, the one fellow's fetch being the other follow's person) that is to see, flying cushats out of his ouveralls and making fesses immodst his forces on the field.