flabel

From Latin flabellum (“a fan”), diminutive of flabrum (“a breeze”), from flare (“to blow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfleɪbəl/

flabel (plural flabels)

1. (obsolete) A fan or flabellum.
   • 1621, Tobias Venner, A Briefe and Accurate Treatise, Concerning, the Taking of the Fume of Tobacco […]‎, page [6]:

     Moreouer, the lungs which are the flabell of the heart […] are by the immoderate heate and sircitie [fiercity?] of this fume, quickely dried and coarctated, and consequently become vnapt for motion, to the great offence of the heart, and ruine at length of the whole body.

   • 1662, John Ellis, S. Austin Imitated: or Retractions and Repentings […]‎, page 118:

     And so this flabel of Schism in the Church, shall also be the bellows of Sedition in the Common-wealth.

   • 1677 [1675], Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, anonymous translator, The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier […]‎, page 179:

     The Bramins also distribute Flabels to the most considerable of the Company, the handles whereof being eight foot long, are plated with Gold and Silver. […] There are six of these Flabels usually employ’d to keep off the Flies from their God; the better sort taking it by turns, that the honour of waiting upon their God may be more equally shar’d.

• flabellate
• flabelliform

• “flabel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• befall

Borrowed from Latin flabellum.

flabel n (plural flabeluri)

1. flabellum (fan)

• flabel in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN