Fess

fess



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–noun Heraldry. (紋章學)

an ordinary in the form of a broad horizontal band across the middle of an e/i/scutcheon (飾有紋章的盾).  



Also, fesse.



—Verb phraseInformal. 

fess up, to admit or concede, esp. freely. 





　

A dramatic situation that should be wrenching is mostly tedious in "Reservation Road." Tale of two New England fathers, one of whom kills the other's son in a hit-and-run auto accident and takes the entire picture to fess up to it, deals with painful, elemental emotions, to be sure.