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PREFERRED TERM
Fan  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the Old English "fann" "fon" "fonnæ" and the Middle English "fanne" "phan" "vanne" and the Latin "vannus". It refers to an instrument hold by hand or agitating the air, to cool the face, etc. with an artificial breeze. It is constructed so as to admit of being folded up in small compass, its form when unfolded being that of a sector of a circle.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Éventail

French

Ventaglio

Italian

Abanico

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/876
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