Definition of Fanos

1. Noun. (plural of fano) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fanos

1. fano [n] - See also: fano

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fanos

fanning
fannings
fannish
fanny about
fanny around
fanny magnet
fanny pack
fanny packs
fano
fanolesomab
fanon
fanons
fanook
fanos (current term)
fanout
fanouts
fans
fanship
fanships
fansite
fansites
fanskate
fanskates
fanslation
fanslations
fanslator
fanslators

Literary usage of Fanos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travels in India by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1889)
"Accordingly, if, at the least, 1000 oysters do not yield 5 fanos worth of pearls, ... In some years the 1000 oysters contain up to 7 fanos worth, ..."

2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"... pearls are not found to the value of five fanos, which is about equal to half-a-crown of our money, ..."

3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"By this meanes we sometimes got fiftie fanos of one, one hundred of another; by no meanes would they endure us to lie at their houses, except one, ..."

4. Lex Mercatoria: Or, A Complete Code of Commercial Law; Being a General Guide by Wyndham Beawes, Joseph Chitty (1813)
"Fanon, or fanos; a coin current on the coast of Malabar, Coromandel, in the isle of Ceylon ... »The silver fanos are not worth, at most, above 2d. sterling, ..."

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