fessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From confess, by shortening.

動詞

fess (三人称単数 現在形 fesses, 現在分詞 fessing, 過去形および過去分詞形 fessed)

1. To confess; to admit.

派生語

• fess up

語源 2

From Old French fesse, an alteration of faisse, from Latin fascia. Doublet of fajita, fascia, and fascism.

別の表記

• fesse, feese

名詞

fess (複数形 fesses)

1. (heraldry) A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
   • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor’, Norton 2005 p.294:

     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.

   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 420:

     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.

派生語

• fess point

形容詞

fess

1. (英国用法 方言) Proud; conceited.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 32:

     Y'll be fess enough, my poppet, when th'st know!"

2. (英国用法 方言) Lively; active; strong.
3. (英国用法 方言) Of animals, bad-tempered, fierce.

アナグラム

• FSes