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‖ flabellum|fləˈbɛləm|
Pl. flabella (erroneously -i).
[L. flābellum fan: see flabel n.]
1. A fan; applied esp. to a fan carried in religious ceremonies.
1875W. Maskell Ivories 91 The bishop's pastoral staff, again, has not dropped out of use like..the flabellum. 1889C. D. Bell Winter on Nile xvi. 154 Officers wave round the shrine flabella and fans.
2. Science. A fan-shaped part of anything.
1867J. Hogg Microsc. ii. i. 270 The frond consists of olive-coloured irregularly-divided flabelli. |