Crossword-Solution: FANON
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fanon | n. | A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FANON | anagram | NOFAN |
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Sentences with FANON (5)
FANON, fan'on, _n._ a cloth for handling the holy vessels or the offertory bread: a maniple or napkin used by the celebrant at mass: an orale: a fannel: one of the lappets of a mitre: (_surg._) a fold of linen laid under a splint.
GONFALON, gon'fa-lon, _n._ an ensign or standard with streamers--also GON'FANON.--_n._ GONFALONIER', one who bears a gonfalon: the chief magistrate in many Italian cities because of his bearing this flag.
These two elegant volumes furnish a complete and practical description of every kind of ecclesiastical vestment, from the Roman collar to the Fanon, which, as Miss Dolby informs us, "appertains only to the vesture of the sovereign pontiff." The authoress is a "Ritualist," and, as will be seen, of the highest order of that formidable sect of the English Church, as by law established.
For the Celebrant—the Amice, the Albe, the Girdle, the Stole, the Maniple or Fanon, and the Chasuble.
Putting aside, therefore, learned research into the origin of the stole (_orarium_, _stola_) and the maniple (_mapula_, _sudarium_, _mantile_, or _fanon_), we need not go further back than the ninth or tenth centuries to find them in general use by the clergy much the same as we see them now.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 35 times in crossword archives (1951–2023).