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Temple, old style
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fane
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fane may refer to: Fane (surname) Fane family , an English family Viscount Fane , an extinct title in the Peerage of Ireland Fane Flaws , New Zealand musician, songwriter and artist River Fane in Ireland Fane, Papua New Guinea , a village associated with ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fane \Fane\, n. [See Vane .] A weathercock. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"weathercock," late 14c., from Old English fana "flag, banner," from Proto-Germanic *fanon (cognates: Old Frisian fana , Gothic fana "piece of cloth," Old High German fano , German Fahne "flag, standard"); possibly cognate with Latin pannus "piece of cloth" ...
Usage examples of fane.
There was a jade pendant which Oliver Fane had brought from China for his wife Lilian, a peach with two leaves, and a little winged creature crawling on it.
William Fane died and your father came home from the Australian station, the engagement was formally given out.
Miss Fane had a very serious riding accident, and for some months there was no certainty that she would live.
Agnes Fane singing passionately to the Vicar, the village, and Oliver Fane.
She felt an extreme reluctance to call across that twenty-year gulf and hear Agnes Fane answering her.
But at the moment Laura was not really aware of anything except Agnes Fane, who sat watching her approach from an invalid chair.
I hope Miss Fane will show you the portraits which Amory did of her and your father.
It showed Agnes Fane bare-headed and in riding-clothes, coming down a flight of steps.
Agnes Fane watched them go and turned to Miss Silver with an approving smile.
Miss Fane went to her room, and Laura thankfully to hers with the immemorial excuse of a letter to write.
She could see a background of crimson curtain, and then out through the doorway, alone and unassisted, came Agnes Fane in her self-propelling chair.
Miss Fane took it dexterously and came to rest in the place which she had occupied at tea-time.
And then Tanis was back again, and Agnes Fane broke in in her deep voice.
She seemed to have travelled a thousand miles from the Laura Fane who had come up to town to stay with Cousin Sophy and see her solicitor, not much more than forty-eight hours ago.
Tanis to the door through which Miss Fane had made her entrance the night before.