Device used to cool oneself, usually made of folded paper.
1She threw a paper fan at him, and sat down again by Guy.
2She stared at the paper fan in a listless fashion.
3Mother snatched a paper fan from her handbag, snapped it open, and fanned impatiently.
4Mrs. Clutter said, "Goodbye, dear," and pressed into Jolene's hand the paper fan.
5And she fanned herself vigorously with a paper fan she held in her left hand.
6For the second a paper fan would suffice.
7The fountains appeared at the tip of a wand or the points of a folding paper fan.
8But wherever he goes, he remembers how I dote on tiny things. She unfolded a little paper fan.
9On the mantelpiece, by a frog smoking a red pipe, a paper fan on which was painted the Bayreuth Theater.
10He took up a paper fan and began to cool himself with a con sequential air, while Charles Gould bowed and withdrew.
11Instead of sending for the police, Mrs. Lecount took a large green paper fan from the chimney-piece, and seated herself opposite her master.
12Her mother's gentle remorse incited it even more, like an old-fashioned housewife coaxing the hearth with a paper fan and a bamboo blowpipe.
13Big Hettie was fanning herself with a brightly colored Chinese paper fan, the perspiration running down the sides of her face and neck.
14He found the paper fan he'd dropped when the terrifying apparition of his nephew's head had assaulted him and he set to cooling himself.
15An employee of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) uses a paper fan as he monitors stock trading at the bourse in Tokyo August 10, 2011.
16Copeland, in fact, was making paper fans out of the official note-paper in front of him.
Translations for paper fan