ceiling fan

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ceiling fan (plural ceiling fans)

  1. A fan fixture attached to a ceiling, sometimes with a built-in light.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 462:
      It was set too high to reflect him, it carried only a shelf of looking-glass beer and the moving blades of the ceiling-fan.

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