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noun, masculine

fanon

/fa.nɔ̃/

noun, masculine/fa.nɔ̃/plural: fanons

dewlap (pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, lizard, or other animal); wattle (wrinkled fold of skin hanging from the neck of a turkey or other bird); baleen plate; (in the plural) baleen (bony material that makes up the plates in the mouth of a baleen whale); feather, feathering (long hair on the lower legs of a horse); bracelet on the right arm

Inherited from Middle French fanon, fannon, from Old French fanon, fanum, from Early Medieval Latin fanō (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), borrowed from Frankish *fano (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *fanô. Cognate with English fane and vane.