flabel
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/ˈfleɪbəl/
Noun
A fan or flabellum.
Usage- Obsolete
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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.
And so this flabel of Schism in the Church, shall also be the bellows of Sedition in the Common-wealth.
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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.
Word forms
flabels