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