Are you ever going to fess up about cheating on your boyfriend?
Source: tatoeba (535248)
Fess
//fɛs//
Synonyms for "fess" (58 found)
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Translations
15 translations across 14 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- faixa noun (band)
Czech
1 entries- břevno noun (band)
Dutch
1 entries- faas noun (band)
Finnish
1 entries- hirsi noun (band)
French
1 entries- fasce noun (band)
Galician
1 entries- faixa noun (band)
German
2 entries- Balken (fess) noun (band)
- Leiste noun (band)
Hungarian
1 entries- pólya noun (band)
Italian
1 entries- fascia noun (band)
Polish
1 entries- pas noun (band)
Portuguese
1 entries- faixa noun (band)
Romanian
1 entries- fașă noun (band)
Spanish
1 entries- faja noun (band)
Swedish
1 entries- bjälke noun (band)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
It's time to fess up.
Source: tatoeba (1548573)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
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