fanon
(ˈfænən)
Forms: α. 5 fanen, -one, -oun, -un, Sc. fannowne, 6 fannom, (Sc.) -oun, fawnon, 6–8 fannon, 5– fanon. β. 6 phanon.
[Fr. fanon, ad. med.L. fanōn-em, fanō banner, napkin, a. OHG. fano, Goth. fana: see fane n.1]
1. An embroidered band, corresponding with the stole, but shorter, originally a kind of napkin, attached to the left wrist of the officiating priest or celebrant, and of the deacon and subdeacon at mass; a maniple.
| 1418 Bury Wills (Camden) 3, j. fanon. 1496 Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) viii. viii. 331/2 The fanon betokneth bounds of his [Christ's] hondes. 1500–20 Dunbar Fenyeit Freir 55 On him come nowthir stole nor fannoun. 1536 in Antiq. Sarisb. (1771) 197 Two Tunicles and three Albes; with divers Stoles and Fannons. 1571 Grindal Articles, Whether all Vestments..Stoles, Phanons, Pixes [etc.]..be vtterly, defaced..and destroied. 1844 Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. ix. 69 The usual episcopal vestments, the amice..fanon, etc. |
2. (See quots.)
| 1844 Pugin Gloss. Eccl. Ornament 120 Georgius says that the fanon or phanon worn by the Pope, is the same as the orale, and is a veil of four colours in stripes. 1849 Rock Ch. of Fathers I. v. 466 The Roman pontiff..vested..in what is called the fanon now but formerly the ‘Orale’. |