fanes

Noun (1)

fane (plural fanes)

1. (obsolete) A weathercock, a weather vane.
   • The ſteeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the preſent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes mounted on ſpires, on the four corners; theſe being judged too weak for the fanes, were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ſteeple altered.1801, John Baillie, An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne, page 541
2. (obsolete) A banner, especially a military banner.
   • So fate fell-woven forward drave him,
     and with malice Mordred his mind hardened,
     saying that war was wisdom and waiting folly.
     ‘Let their fanes be felled and their fast places
     bare and broken, burned their havens,
     and isles immune from march of arms
     or Roman reign now reek to heaven
     in fires of...c. 1935, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur, Harper Collins, London, published 2013, →ISBN, page 18

Noun (2)

fane (plural fanes)

1. A temple or sacred place.
   • And Pallas rear'd him; her ovvn unctuous fane / She made his habitation, vvhere vvith bulls / The youth of Athens, and vvith ſlaughter'd lambs / Her annual vvorſhip celebrate.1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book II.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 52...

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