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In vexillology, a Spanish fess is a term occasionally used to describe the central horizontal stripe of a tricolour or triband flag that is twice the width of the stripes on either side of it. Image File history File links Flag_of_Spain. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Spain. ... File links The following pages link to this file: Lebanon Communications in Lebanon Transportation in Lebanon Military of Lebanon Freedom House Arab League La Francophonie Progressive Socialist Party Litani River Tripoli, Lebanon Lebanon crisis of 1958 Beirut International Airport Hula, Lebanon Kataeb Party (Lebanon) Anti_Lebanon Saad Haddad List of national... File links The following pages link to this file: Lebanon Communications in Lebanon Transportation in Lebanon Military of Lebanon Freedom House Arab League La Francophonie Progressive Socialist Party Litani River Tripoli, Lebanon Lebanon crisis of 1958 Beirut International Airport Hula, Lebanon Kataeb Party (Lebanon) Anti_Lebanon Saad Haddad List of national... Flag of the Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques. ... French tricolour flag A tricolour is a flag or banner having three colours, usually in approximately equal size (horizontally or vertically) and lacking additional symbols. ... The flag of Austria - a simple horizontal triband The flag of France - a simple vertical triband, and also a tricolour The flag of Canada - a vertical triband with uneven bands and a defacement The triband is one of the most common designs of flag, and is the design of some...

The name is based on the most well-known example of this style of flag, the flag of Spain, and in analogy to the equivalent term for vertically striped flags, the Canadian pale. Flag ratio: 2:3 The flag of Spain in its current form was adopted on December 19, 1981. ... In vexillology and heraldry, a Canadian pale is the centre of a flag that is a square or rectangle covering half the width of a flag rather than a rectangle covering a third as in a tricolour. ...

As with the Canadian pale, a looser definition of Spanish fess also exists, in which the central stripe is considerably larger, but not necessarily twice the width of, the two outer stripes.

Other flags featuring a Spanish fess include the national flags of Lebanon, Cambodia, and Laos, and the flag of French Polynesia. Flag ratio: 2:3 Flag of French Polynesia. ...