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TERME PRÉFÉRENTIEL
Fan  
DÉFINITION
  • 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.
CONCEPT GÉNÉRIQUE
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford
TRADUCTIONS
Abanico

espagnol

Éventail

français

Ventaglio

italien

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