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单词 flabel
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flabeln.

Forms: Also 1500s flable.
Etymology: < Latin flābellum fan, diminutive of *flābrum, plural flābra gusts of wind, < flāre to blow.
Obsolete.
a. A fan.
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the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > fan
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Flable and fanne idem.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Eii/2 A Flabel, flabellum.
1628 T. Venner Treat. Tobacco (1650) 402 The lungs which are the flabel of the heart.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Flable [1670 Flabel], a Fan.
b. Entomology, in grasshoppers (see quot. 1658).
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1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 992 They [Grashoppers] sing not with their mouth..but by the reverberation of a little membrane under the flabells; (so they call those two coverings behinde the hinder thighs cleaving to the belly).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

flabelv.

Etymology: < flabel n. Compare Old French flabeller, < late Latin flābellāre.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To fan.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (a blast) (of the wind [verb (transitive)] > blow upon gently
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winnow1801
the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > freshen (air) [verb (transitive)] > supply with fresh air or ventilate > fan
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1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxxix. 176 It is continually flabbell'd [Fr. éventé], blown upon, and aired by the north winds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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