van
/væn/ noun C2- A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
- A wing with which the air is beaten.
Plural vans
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It reminds me of the circumstances attendant on the death of Van Jansen, in Utrecht, in the year ‘34.
He knows nothing of Van Seddar."
"I thought Van Seddar was going next week."
Van Schuylight Suffolk-Jones—came out to his waiting motor-car, wrinkling a contumelious nostril, as usual, at the Italian renaissance sculpture of the soap palace’s front elevation.
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