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plural fanals
(obsolete) A lighthouse
(obsolete) The beacon inside a lighthouse quotations
On the right hand, as you enter the port, there is an elegant fanal, or lighthouse, kept in good repair: but in all the charts of this coast which I have seen, this lanthorn is laid down to the westward of the harbour; […]
1764 January 20, Tobias Smollett, “Letter, XIV”, in Travels Through France and Italy, published 1766
In order to assemble our full force in due time, fanals should be erected […] and kindled in such a manner as to direct the movements of the troops to any point according to an order.
1811, Wilhelm Müller, The elements of the science of war, page 487