fanon.
dewlap (pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, lizard, or other animal)
Meaning & usage
dewlap (pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, lizard, or other animal)
wattle (wrinkled fold of skin hanging from the neck of a turkey or other bird)
baleen plate; (in the plural) baleen (bony material that makes up the plates in the mouth of a baleen whale)
feather, feathering (long hair on the lower legs of a horse)
bracelet on the right arm
fanon (vestment reserved for the Pope)
fanon (part of a bishops mitre)
tabs on a banner or pennant
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle French fanon, fannon, from Old French fanon, fanum, from Early Medieval Latin fanō (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), borrowed from Frankish *fano (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *fanô. Cognate with English fane and vane.
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