flavel

Old French

Etymology

Latin flabellum. Compare English flabel, a borrowing from the same source.

Noun

flavel oblique singular, m (oblique plural flaveaus or flaveax or flaviaus or flaviax or flavels, nominative singular flaveaus or flaveax or flaviaus or flaviax or flavels, nominative plural flavel)

1. rattle; clapper (device designed to make a noise when rattled)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (flavel)
• flavel on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub