Searchable Lemmata: fanella (L), fanula (L), fanulum (L), fanol (ME).
Alternate Forms: phanol, fanellis.
1(n.)
Garment;
maniple, fanon.(ante 1225 - circa 1455 ?)
1. pro j tunicula et dalmatica et duabus albis cum duobus amictis et duobus (sic) fanulis et duabus stolis
Accounts.
[DMLBS Cl (471b) 1221]
4. cum iij albis ac cum eorum plenis apparatibus, stolis, orariis, limbis, manipulis sive fanellis
Ecclesiastic/Regula.
[DMLBS Reg. Heref. (272) 1445]
5. [149] ... A rede chesyble with a patyble stool and fanol of the same sute ... One chesyple of gold, poudred of yelowe and blue ... A nother coope of dyuers workes of yelowe and braunche with a tuft of blue and grene silke be hynd ... [150] ... A cope of grene bawdakyn with Red Orffrai ... Item, the veyl, other wyse called the lent cloth, of whyte lynen cloth with a cross of blue, and the lyne thereto ... The apparail ... longyng to Seynt Margaret is auter, with hyr figur steyned ... and ij bosces of copper and ouer gylt
Accounts.
[MED Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15 (149-150) 1454/1455]
Sex: Male Use: Ecclesiastical Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: Arm, Hand, Neck, Shoulder(s).
Speculative, Medieval L fanula, from Old French fanol? (not attested in AND2 or Godefroy; DMLBS, s.v. 'fanula, ~um': 'cf. OF fanol').
The OED notes the forms fannell and phanelle, with the same meaning (an ecclesiastical maniple), attested from 1530 onwards. It derives the form from medieval L fanul-a and notes the form fanonellus in Du Cange (s.v. 'fannell, n.', OED, 2nd ed., 1989; online version March 2012. <http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/68083>; accessed 07 June 2012).
WF:
Etym Cog: fanol (AF).
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