flavel
Old French
Etymology
Latin flabellum. Compare English flabel, a borrowing from the same source.
Noun
flavel 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)
- 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 IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (flavel)
- flavel on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub