Forms: α. 5 faneu, -one, -oun, -un, Sc. fannowne, 6 fannom, (Sc.) -oun, fawnon, 6–8 fannon, 5– fanon. β. 6 phanon. [Fr. fanon, ad. med.L. fanōn-em, fanō banner, napkin, a. OHG. fano, Goth. fana: see FANE sb.1]
1. An embroidered band, corresponding with the stole, but shorter, originally a kind of napkin, attached to the left wrist of the officiating priest or celebrant, and of the deacon and subdeacon at mass; a maniple.
1418. Bury Wills (Camden), 3, j. fanon.
1496. Dives & Paup. (W. de W.), VIII. viii. 331/2. The fanon betokneth bounds of his [Christ’s] hondes.
1500–20. Dunbar, The Fenȝeit Freir of Tungland, 53.
| Thocht he come hame a new maid channoun, | |
| He had dispensit with matynnis cannoun, | |
| On him come nowthir stole nor fannoun, | |
| For smowking of the smydy. |
1536. in Antiq. Sarisb. (1771), 197. Two Tunicles and three Albes; with divers Stoles and Fannons, some wanting an ammess.
1571. Grindal, Articles. Whether all Vestments … Stoles, Phanons, Pixes [etc.] … be vtterly, defaced … and destroied.
1844. Lingard, Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858), II. ix. 69. Over this appeared the usual episcopal vestments, the amice, alb, stole, fanon, tunic, and dalmatic.
2. (See quots.)
1844. Pugin, Gloss. Eccl. Ornament, 120. Georgius says that the fanon or phanon worn by the Pope, is the same as the orale, and is a veil of four colours in stripes.
1849. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, I. v. 466. The Roman pontiff, who, when he is being vested for singing solemn High Mass, clothes himself, along with the other sacerdotal robes, in what is called THE FANON now but formerly the ‘Orale.’
