flabella

There is, for instance, no line of papal courtiers waving huge ostrich feather fans (called "flabella"), as before Vatican II.

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In 1635 John Cotton, one of the principal ministers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, declared that the new land should forbid “[l]ascivious dancing to wanton ditties, and amorous gestures and wanton dalliances . . . [which] I would bear witness against as a great flabella Libidinis [fanning of sexual desire].”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Then it also incorparated items such as the flabella, the prudence of which to suddenly reinstate would be questionable given that even such small things could promote a backlash also among ordinary Catholics who will be put off by what they would consider excessive pomp and which would be true by today's standards.

Two Years after Summorum Pontificum: The Situation in France 2009

Then it also incorparated items such as the flabella, the prudence of which to suddenly reinstate would be questionable given that even such small things could promote a backlash also among ordinary Catholics who will be put off by what they would consider excessive pomp and which would be true by today's standards.

Two Years after Summorum Pontificum: The Situation in France 2009

In a short time, drew near about ten couples, when, at length, were heard the gentle strains of music, and couple by couple advanced with banners, dragons, with fans made with phoenix feathers, and palace flabella of pheasant plumes; and those besides who carried gold-washed censers burning imperial incense.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

-- Ed. [146] Scimus quam lubricus sit lapsus, dum aliunde nobis flabella suscitat Satan: quia videmur culpa exempti, si ejus partem sustinet qui nos ad flagitium inducit.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

* Scimus quam lubricus sit lapsus, dum aliunde nobis flabella suscitat Satan: quia videmur culpa exempti, si ejus partem sustinet qui nos ad flagitium inducit: [801] 1

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

Sometimes their attendants screened them from the sun by holding up a shield (as is still done in Southern Africa), or by some other contrivance; but the chariot of the king or of a princess, was often furnished with a large parasol; and the flabella borne behind the king, which belonged exclusively to royalty, answered the same purpose.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

In a short time, drew near about ten couples, when, at length, were heard the gentle strains of music, and couple by couple advanced with banners, dragons, with fans made with phoenix feathers, and palace flabella of pheasant plumes; and those besides who carried gold-washed censers burning imperial incense.

Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

The pope, wearing the falda, amice, alb, cincture, pectoral cross, stola, cope (mantum), and tiara is carried into the basilica on the sedia gestatoria under the canopy and with the two flabella borne on either side.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913