fanlike

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Adj.

fanlike - resembling a fan

broad, wide - having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"

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As he did so he saw the good sister with the high-colored cheeks and the fanlike frill to her coiffure, who had admitted him, was in conference at the gate with two persons who had just come in.

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The fog was lighter here, and he could see the strange, bottle-shaped kilns with their orange, fanlike tongues of fire.

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Others resembled strange beasts, and on the sides of the cave were fanlike ivory tracings, such as the frost leaves upon a pane.

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The lower section of Rising, meanwhile, depicts what looks like fire and smoke, perhaps alluding to the explosive launch of a missile, with a more balanced fanlike shape above.

Angelika J. Trojnarski: GALERIE TANJA WAGNER

The second is a fanlike series (F) of essentially separate but thematically linked components that advance an overall project rather than aiming at a particular result.

Early RAND as a Talent Incubator: An Extraordinary Experiment

The seated pose with the legs crossed at the ankles, and a fanlike antavasa motif in front (figure 11), are distinctly Pala-related, suggesting ongoing influence from India of this period.

Pala-inspired Vajrayana Buddhist bronzes from the Khorat Plateau: the Khmer-Pala link

They come in diverse shapes, including the fanlike diatom (bottom) that lives on red algae, which are archaeplastids.

Strange relations: schoolroom kingdoms are taking a backseat to life's supergroups

Here, fanlike Mexican tree ocotillos (Fouquieria macdougalii) serve as a backdrop for equally spaced agaves (Agave 'Blue Glow') and low chartreuse Sedum rupestre 'Angelina'.

Your easiest garden ever: fresh ways to combine no-fuss shrubs, perennials, and grasses

These so-called two-stage and three-stage machines employ an auger or paddle arrangement to feed snow to a fanlike impeller that forcefully sends the white stuff flying.

6 tools to tame winter: get equipped to handle the coming snow and ice

The centers of the bed quilts have large fanlike designs that form a cross.

Vase-pattern wholecloth quilts in the eighteenth-century Quaker community

IV, with 2 fanlike sensilla and 2 cuticular conic papillae.

A new species of Isotogastrura (Collembola: isotogastruridae) from Northeastern Brazil

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