flabellum
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Fl, The flabellum which becomes the epipodite of higher forms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
The name flagellum, indicating something as unstable as a breeze, is derived from flatus, by the change of a letter, just as in the case of the word flabellum, which means fly fan.
From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax
Rhīpid′ion, in the Greek Church, the eucharistic fan or flabellum.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
The flabellum is used, though now rarely made of precious metal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
Ventilabrum and flabellum are names under which ecclesiastical fans are mentioned in old inventories.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
Prelates held a damask canopy over the Holy Father's head and stirred the warm air about him with ostrich-plumed flabella.
From Time Magazine Archive
The two enormous, semicircular flabella or ostrich fans were also omitted.
From Time Magazine Archive
