Hypertext Webster Gateway: "flabellum"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flabellum \Fla*bel"lum\, n. [L. See {Flabel}.] (Eccl.)
A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state
occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers. --Shipley.
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