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flabel
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English
Etymology
From Latin flabellum (“a fan”), diminutive of flabrum (“a breeze”), from flare (“to blow”).
Pronunciation
Noun
flabel (plural flabels)
- (obsolete) A fan or flabellum.
- 1621, Tobias Venner, A Briefe and Accurate Treatise, Concerning, the Taking of the Fume of Tobacco […], page [6]:
- Moreouer, the lungs which are the flabell of the heart […] are by the immoderate heate and sircitie [fiercity?] of this fume, quickely dried and coarctated, and consequently become vnapt for motion, to the great offence of the heart, and ruine at length of the whole body.
- 1662, John Ellis, S. Austin Imitated: or Retractions and Repentings […], page 118:
- And so this flabel of Schism in the Church, shall also be the bellows of Sedition in the Common-wealth.
- 1677 [1675], Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, anonymous translator, The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier […], page 179:
- The Bramins also distribute Flabels to the most considerable of the Company, the handles whereof being eight foot long, are plated with Gold and Silver. […] There are six of these Flabels usually employ’d to keep off the Flies from their God; the better sort taking it by turns, that the honour of waiting upon their God may be more equally shar’d.
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Further reading
- “flabel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Romanian
Etymology
Noun
flabel n (plural flabeluri)
- flabellum (fan)
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