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fanne | fane |

As a noun fanne

is (dated|fandom) a female science fiction fan.

As a verb fane is

.

As an adjective fane is

faded.

fanne

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (dated, fandom) A female science fiction fan.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , 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. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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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    • Synonyms

    * fangirl, femfan, femme fan

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    fane

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) fane, from (etyl) . More at vane.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A weathercock, a weather vane.
  • * 1801 , John Baillie, An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne , page 541,
    • The ?teeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the pre?ent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes' mounted on ?pires, on the four corners; the?e being judged too weak for the ' fanes , were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ?teeple altered.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A temple or sacred place.
  • * 1850 , The Madras Journal of Literature and Science , Volume 16, page 64,
    • Fanes are built around it for a distance of 3, 4 or 5 Indian miles; but whether these are Jaina , or more strictly Hindu is not mentioned.
  • * 1884 , , Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau , page 78,
    • The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids. They had their sacred oaken groves. Such were their steeple houses. Nature was to some extent a fane to them.
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane , its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • * 1993 [1978], (editor), The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1: Cosmogenesis, page 458,
    • And this ideal conception is found beaming like a golden ray upon each idol, however coarse and grotesque, in the crowded galleries of the sombre fanes of India and other Mother lands of cults.
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