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Quotation dates: 1400, 1500-1513, 1587-1599, 1654-1684
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Fane, n. Also: fan, fayn, phan(e, phaine. [ME. fane (c 1325), fayne, OE. fana. See also Than(e n.2] a. A flag, pennant. b. A vane; a weathercock. — c1400 Troy-bk. i. 229.
The housses … With fannys and banneres vpon hight Aboue standand c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxvi. 95.
Of this fals failȝeand warld I tyre, That ever more flytis lyk ane phane 1513 Doug. xii. Prol. 47.
The aureat fanys [R. phanis] of hys trone souerane With glytrand glans ourspred the occiane 1513 Ib. 71.
Euery fyall, fayn [v.r. fane], and stage 1587-99 Hume 27/55.
The glansing phanis [v.rr. thains, wanys] and vitre bright Resplends against the sunne 1654–6 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 602.
To Wm. Ker for guilding the phan of the pricket 1684 T. Brown Diary 32.
The phaine of the steiple of St. Magnus Kirk … wes place [sic] upon the top tharof be the belman
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