- fan

FAN. A well-known hand ornament used by ladies to cool themselves by agitating the air. As in the armorial bearings of the Fan-Makers’ Company. P. 36, f. 14. (ELVN)

FAN, Winnowing Basket, Shruttle, or Fruttle. A Fan by which the chaff is blown away. P. 39, f. 16. (ELVN)

Fan веер, опахало Кроме fan или shruttle, уже отмечавшегося в разделе basket, есть обычный веер, который встречается в знаке, приписываемом семье FANMAKERS. Веер также встречается в гербе, приписываемом в одной рукописи компании FANMAKERS

«Or, a fan displayed with a mount of various devices and colours, the sticks gules; on a chief per pale gules and azure, on the dexter side a shaving-iron over a bundle of fan-sticks tied together or; on the sinister side a framed saw in pale of the last» – FANMAKERS' Company[inc. 1709].

«Argent, on a chevron between three fans(?) gules as many Catherine wheels or» – Company of HABERDASHERS, anciently called HURRERS and MILANERS, Cottonian MS., Tiberius, D. 10.

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