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the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Vane
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(formerly spelt "fane," i.e. pennon, flag; cf. Ger. Fahne, Du. vaan, Fr. girouette, Ital. banderuola, Ger. Wetterfahne), the weathercock on a steeple. Vanes seem in early times to have been of various forms, as dragons, &c.; but in the Tudor period the favourite design was a beast or bird sitting on a slender pedestal and carrying an upright rod, on which a thin plate of metal is hung like a flag, ornamented in various ways.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Vane'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/v/vane.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Vane'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/v/vane.html. 1910.
