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fanon
1[ fan-uhn ]
noun
, Ecclesiastical.
- a maniple.
- Also called orale. a striped scarflike vestment worn by the pope over the alb when celebrating solemn Pontifical Mass.
Fanon
2[ fan-uhn; French fa-nawn ]
noun
- Frantz (O·mar) [frants , oh, -mahr, f, r, ah, n, ts aw-, mar], 1925–61, West Indian psychiatrist and political theorist, born in Martinique; in Algeria after 1953.
fanon
/ ˈfænən /
noun
- a collar-shaped vestment worn by the pope when celebrating mass
- (formerly) various pieces of embroidered fabric used in the liturgy
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fanon1
Middle English, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German fano cloth
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Example Sentences
Gonfalon, gon′fa-lon, n. an ensign or standard with streamers—also Gon′fanon.
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