in heraldry, one of the nine honourable ordinaries, consisting of a line drawn directly across the shield, from side to side, and containing the third part of it, between the honour-point and the nombril.

It represents a broad girdle or belt of honour, which knights at arms were anciently girded with. See Plate LXXX. fig. 5.

Fesse point, is the exact centre of the escutcheon. See Point.

Fesse-ways, or in fesse, denotes anything borne after the manner of a fesse; that is, in a rank across the middle of the shield.

Party per Fesse, implies a parting across the middle of the shield, from side to side, through the fesse point.