gerfalcon
Britishnoun
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And at that tournament Sir Uwaine smote down thirty knights, therefore was given him the prize, and that was a gerfalcon, and a white steed trapped with cloth of gold.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
But Le Beau Disconus sent the white gerfalcon to King Arthur for a gift, and the king sent him a hundred pounds' weight of florins.
From The Junior Classics — Volume 4 by William Patten
He always had a hand as true as steel, and an eye like a gerfalcon.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
To Audubon's delight, it was that rare specimen, the gerfalcon, which had heretofore eluded all efforts of naturalists.
From Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 by Henrietta Christian Wright
Particularly in the most poetical passages you are excellent; as, for instance, in the fine description of the gerfalcon and the heron in 'El Mayor Encanto.'
From Poems by Denis Florence MacCarthy
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