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Definition of Fangles
1. fangle [v] - See also: fangle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fangles
Literary usage of Fangles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1862)
"A hatred to fangles, and the French fooleries of his time.—Wood in Nares.
Fingle-fangle, a trifle.—Hal. A nasalized form of G. fick- facken, to fidget, ..."
2. Memorial of the Most Reverend Father in God Thomas Cranmer, Sometime Lord by John Strype (1812)
"... -what ihe thinks of fuch new fangles as are brought into the Church of God, (he
will fay, that they be naught. He alfo preached, that men now-a-days fay ..."
3. Memorials of ... Thomas Cranmer, sometime lord archbishop of Canterbury by John Strype (1840)
"Adding these words, If you will ask your conscience, what she thinks of such new
fangles as are brought into the Church of God, she will say, ..."
4. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly (1902)
"456 ' A hatred to fangles, and the French fooleries of his time ' (Nares). 7.
shadows : the same as a bone-grace, or border attached to a bonnet to shield ..."
5. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1902)
"0, these are very glorious words ; but it is not fit, good Christians, that such
new fangles and phantasies of men should bo brought into the Church of God. ..."
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