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"etymology_text": "Pseudo-French feminine form of fan",
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"ref": "1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, Fannes, page 31:",
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"ref": "1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life, volume 30, number 21, →ISSN, page 127:",
"text": "A little more than a week ago two fen and one fanne left for London as delegates to a big gathering formally billed as the Science Fiction Festival Convention but more intimately described as a fanference. […] Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen […] many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and fenne after all.",
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"ref": "1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Cyclone”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 2013-07-21:",
"text": "Dorothy lived in the middle of the great western plains, far away from any other fans. She was a very lonely little fanne, who could not afford to go to the annual World Conventions, and had been only to one Oklacon.",
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"A female science fiction fan."
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"(dated, sometimes derogatory, fandom slang) A female science fiction fan."
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{
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}
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},
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"ref": "1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life, volume 30, number 21, →ISSN, page 127:",
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"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A female science fiction fan."
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"(dated, sometimes derogatory, fandom slang) A female science fiction fan."
],
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}
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