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Possible misspelling? More dictionaries have definitions for fesse,  fussed -- could that be what you meant?

first evening some stairs extended down
Under the maid's room, as he had already noticed on the first evening, some stairs extended down to the water, and there was a small gondola chained to the high pole on the side, so that a second gondola would only barely be able to pass by.
— from Andrea Delfin by Paul Heyse

for ever said Sir Ensor Doone
“Fools you are; be fools for ever,” said Sir Ensor Doone, at last; while we feared to break his thoughts, but let each other know our own, with little ways of pressure; “it is the best thing I can wish you; boy and girl, be boy and girl, until you have grandchildren.”
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Flehi et Sincfalam solidus est duo
[154] ‘Inter Flehi et Sincfalam solidus est duo denarii et dimidius ad novam monetam.’
— from Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales' by Frederic Seebohm

for ever said Sir Ensor Doone
'Fools you are; be fools for ever,' said Sir Ensor Doone, at last; while we feared to break his thoughts, but let each other know our own, with little ways of pressure; 'it is the best thing I can wish you; boy and girl, be boy and girl, until you have grandchildren.'
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

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