Word: flabella
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...apparently kneeling but actually sitting at a priedieu on a platform borne by twelve husky men. Pius XI bore aloft a gem-encrusted monstrance containing the Host.* Prelates held a damask canopy over the Holy Father's head and stirred the warm air about him with ostrich-plumed flabella. Mace-bearers, torchbearers. Noble Guards and Swiss Guards walked at his side. The crowd cheered. Then 18 cardinals and 6,000 priests and ordinaries fell into line, bearing lighted candles. The Pope in the rear, they marched slowly through the evening shadows and the Bernini colonnade...
...Supreme Pontiff entered, carried shoulder-high on his portable throne, it was seen that the usual canopy had been stripped away, as if for freer action. The two enormous, semicircular flabella or ostrich fans were also omitted...