fanon

¹

[fan-uhn]

noun

Ecclesiastical.

1. a maniple.

2. Also called orale. a striped scarflike vestment worn by the pope over the alb when celebrating solemn Pontifical Mass.

Fanon

²

[fan-uhn, fa-nawn]

noun

1. Frantz (Omar) 1925–61, West Indian psychiatrist and political theorist, born in Martinique; in Algeria after 1953.

fanon

/ ˈfænən /

noun

1. a collar-shaped vestment worn by the pope when celebrating mass

2. (formerly) various pieces of embroidered fabric used in the liturgy

Word History and Origins

Origin of fanon¹

1350–1400; Middle English fano ( u ) n < Anglo-French; Old French fanum < Old Low Franconian *fano piece of fabric; compare Old High German, Old Saxon fano in same sense ( German Fahne flag), early Medieval Latin fano maniple; vane, gonfalon

Word History and Origins

Origin of fanon¹

Middle English, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German fano cloth

Example Sentences

In examining the lives of five men — Malcolm X, Frantz Fanon, Matthew Henson, Ira Aldridge and Justin Fashanu — Eshun, a British writer, curator and broadcaster, explores Black masculinity in the context of history: how it gets made and who gets to write and tell it.

From Los Angeles Times

Reading “James” is like reading Frantz Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth” or watching “Get Out” for the first time — thrilling, eye-opening and gut-wrenching.

From Los Angeles Times

Others on board included modernist Russian poet and a Trotskyite anarchist Victor Serge, Martinican poet and a founder of the anticolonialism Négritude movement Aimé Césaire, Cuban painter Wifredo Lam; influential Marxist psychiatrist and Pan-Africanist Frantz Fanon, along with fascinating others.

From Los Angeles Times

“I shout my laughter to the stars,” Fanon says in despair.

From Los Angeles Times

They quoted postcolonial theorist Frantz Fanon, Black liberation activist Marcus Garvey, the late poet Benjamin Zephaniah, and comedian Romesh Ranganathan, who has frequently joked that his mum calls him a coconut for not speaking Tamil.

From BBC