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Fess angled or rectangled, having the straight outward fine cut off by another straight line, which, in joining, make a perfect square angle.
Fess bevilled or acute-angled, having the outward line cut off by another line, making an acute or sharp cornered angle inclining to a triangular form.
Fess double bevilled, having two angles or turns.
Fess arched, archy or bowed: curved somewhat resembling an arch.
Fess archy coronetted on the top, or formed like the rim or circle of a coronet borne fesswise.
Fess treble arched, once also found emblazoned arrondie, nué, nuage or gored. It is formed like arches, the number of which may differ, in which case, the number should be specified. If arched on both sides, this should be so expressed, and if only on one, the side from which the points project should be named, as a Fess treble arched, gored on both sides.
Fess battled embattled or, as it were, double embattled with one battlement upon another. It is sometimes called a Fess embattled grady, Fess grady embattled, and also a Fess escartelé grady.
Fess of a demi belt. This is sometimes blazoned a demi belt fixed in fess, buckled, edged and garnished or a soldier’s belt extended in fess. It is the true original fess, which was intended to represent a waist-belt or girdle.
Fess bordered, or fimbriated, runs entirely round the ordinary, unlike the edge, which only appears on the sides. If the border is not continued all round, it is termed a Fess edged.
Fess billetty counter billetty is a division of this ordinary into the form of billets, by horizontal and perpendicular lines crossing each other.
Fess bretessed is borne embattled or in the form of battlements on the upper and under side, so placed that the merlons and crenelles correspond on either side. When the projections or merlons on the upper edge are opposed to the indentures or crenelles, the term embattled counter-embattled is employed. See Fess 2, No 10
This form of fess is variously blazoned Fess bretessed parted or biparted, Fess embattled parted or biparted, three pales couped and two barrulets conjoined or three billets and two barrulets conjoined.
Fess charged with five music bars, being a fess drawn with a music stave.
Fess and canton conjoined. When these two ordinaries, or any other ordinary, are borne together of the same tincture, they are not defined by a line where each unite, though the outward form of both is preserved.
Fess chequy is divided into squares or checkers, and not less than three rows. It is borne of alternate tinctures.
Fess compony counter-compony is divided into two rows of square partitions, counterchanging the tinctures.
Fess fracted, removed, rompu, etc. describes a fess having a part removed, broken, interrupted or parted asunder.
Fess cotised, or between cotises, but more properly termed a Fess between two barrulets, the cotise or cost being a diminutive of the bend, though the term cost seems derived from the French word costé, signifying a side.
Fess between two barrulets fleury also termed Fess between two cotises fleury. Fleury meaning only the top part of the fleur-de-lis, as there depicted.
Fess between two bars-gemelle by some called double cotised.
Fess between two bars-gemelle embattled, or more accurately between two bars-gemelle bretessed.
Fess treble cotised, or more properly blazoned a Fess betw. six barrulets.
Fess cotised dancetté, or rather a Fess between two barrulets dancetté.
Fess cotised potenté or between two barrulets potenté. See Note under Cotise
Fess double cotised potent counter-potent or between two barrulets potent counter-potent.
Fess couped or humetté is a fess cut off at each end. It was anciently termed a Fess carnelle. If three are borne in one coat, they may be properly termed humets, which cannot be placed otherwise than one above the other, and therefore need not to be described in pale.
Fess humet differs from the Fess couped by showing its thickness, which the other does not. It has been called called a table and a gravestone, and is virtually indistinguishable from the delf.
Fess crenelle, or embattled on the top, the latter words, though generally used by most authors, being superfluous, as the fess, etc. when embattled on both sides, is then termed embattled counter-embattled.
Fess
fracted or removed, is a
fess
broken, and one piece set above the other.
