Noun: fane
Sample Sentences
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The ſteeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the preſent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes mounted on ſpires, on the four corners; theſe being judged too weak for the fanes, were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ſteeple altered. [1801, John Baillie, An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne, page 541:]
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So fate fell-woven forward drave him,
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and with malice Mordred his mind hardened,
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saying that war was wisdom and waiting folly.
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‘Let their fanes be felled and their fast places
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bare and broken, burned their havens,
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and isles immune from march of arms
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or Roman reign now reek to heaven
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in fires of vengeance! [I.18-25] [c. 1935, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur, Harper Collins, London, published 2013, →ISBN, page 18:]
Nouns inflected like fane
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô (“cloth, flag”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“to weave; something woven; cloth, fabric, tissue”). Doublet of fanon and vane. See: Middle English Nouns '
fane', Old English Nouns '
fana'.
Verbs referencing "fane"
Latin Nouns
pannus, French Nouns
fanon.