- a variation of gyrfalcon.
gerfalcon
Britishnoun
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Smaller than the royal gerfalcon, the Bishop's bird was none the less a swift and beautiful creature.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This white bird is a gerfalcon from the north.
From The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The young Emperor was stretched on a couch of dyed lion skins, and a gerfalcon perched upon his wrist.
From A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde
But the falcon was indeed a thoroughbred, with the eye of a gerfalcon.
From Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas père
All men said that Giffroun had lost the white gerfalcon; and they bore him into the town upon his shield.
From The Junior Classics — Volume 4 by William Patten
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