flabelo

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

From Latin flabellum.

Noun

flabelo m (plural flabelos)

  1. fan (hand-held device waved back and forth to cool someone)
    Synonyms: leque, abano, abanico

Etymology 2

Verb

flabelo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of flabelar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flaˈbelo/
  • Rhymes: -elo
  • Syllabification: fla‧be‧lo

Noun

flabelo m (plural flabelos)

  1. Flabellum (large fan with long handle).
    1982, Manuel Mujica Lainez, El escarabajo:
    Afuera tendría principio, bajo una vasta tienda, el fúnebre banquete habitual, mas yo nada oí; terminado éste y su algazara, el Faraón y los comensales regresarían a Tebas. Una vez por año, cuando el dios Amón de Karnak cruza el río en una barca de madera del Líbano, para visitar la necrópolis, Ramsés vendría al Valle, agitando un incensario; lo escoltarían el visir, con el flabelo, y el Escriba Real, quien traería un ramo de papiros. Año a año vendrían, el décimo mes. Ahora la oscuridad y el silencio eran los faraones; el desierto también, su enorme aliado.
    Outside, under a vast tent, the usual funeral banquet would begin, but I heard nothing; After this and his celebration, Pharaoh and the diners would return to Thebes. Once a year, when the god Amun of Karnak crosses the river in a wooden boat from Lebanon, to visit the necropolis, Ramses would come to the Valley, waving a censer; He would be escorted by the vizier, with the flabellum, and the Royal Scribe, who would bring a bouquet of papyrus. Year after year they would come, the tenth month. Now darkness and silence were the pharaohs; the desert too, its enormous ally.

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