flabel

plural flabels

1. obsoleteA fan or flabellum.

   And so this flabel of Schism in the Church, shall also be the bellows of Sedition in the Common-wealth.

   1662, John Ellis, S. Austin Imitated: or Retractions and Repentings […], page 118

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   Moreouer, the lungs which are the flabell of the heart […] are by the immoderate heate and sircitie [fiercity?] of this fume, quickely dried and coarctated, and consequently become vnapt for motion, to the great offence of the heart, and ruine at length of the whole body.

   1621, Tobias Venner, A Briefe and Accurate Treatise, Concerning, the Taking of the Fume of Tobacco […], page [6]

   The Bramins also distribute Flabels to the most considerable of the Company, the handles whereof being eight foot long, are plated with Gold and Silver. […] There are six of these Flabels usually employ’d to keep off the Flies from their God; the better sort taking it by turns, that the honour of waiting upon their God may be more equally shar’d.

   1677 [1675], Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, anonymous translator, The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier […], page 179