Noun

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(dated, fandom) A female science fiction fan.

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, year = 1944 , author = John Bristol Speer , title = Fancyclopedia , url = http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_I/f1.html , section = Fannes , page = 31 , passage = Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans. }}

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, year = 1951 , month = May , day = 21 , author = Winthrop Sargeant , magazine= Life , title = Through the Interstellar Looking Glass , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=fVEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA127 , volume = , issue = , page = 127 , issn = 0024-3019 , passage = A little more than a week ago two fen and one fanne' left for London as delegates to a big gathering formally billed as the Science Fiction Festival Convention but more intimately described as a fanference.
Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen ... many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and ' fenne after all. }}

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, year = 1959 , author = & Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon) , title = The BNF of Iz , chapter = The Cyclone , url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/BNF_of_IZ/BNF_of_IZ-01.html , passage = Dorothy lived in the middle of the great western plains, far away from any other fans. She was a very lonely little fanne , who could not afford to go to the annual World Conventions, and had been only to one Oklacon. }}

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