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fanon.

dewlap (pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, lizard, or other animal)

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Meaning & usage

noun/fa.nɔ̃/
  1. dewlap (pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, lizard, or other animal)

    masculine
  2. wattle (wrinkled fold of skin hanging from the neck of a turkey or other bird)

    masculine
  3. baleen plate; (in the plural) baleen (bony material that makes up the plates in the mouth of a baleen whale)

    masculine
  4. feather, feathering (long hair on the lower legs of a horse)

    masculine
  5. bracelet on the right arm

    masculine
  6. fanon (vestment reserved for the Pope)

    masculine
  7. fanon (part of a bishops mitre)

    masculine · plural-normally
  8. tabs on a banner or pennant

    broadly · masculine · plural-normally
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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