- a variation of gyrfalcon.
gerfalcon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A gerfalcon, a tercell of gerfalcon are due to a king.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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
All birds of prey, when used for sport, received the generic name of falcon; and amongst them were to be found the gerfalcon, the saker-hawk, the lanner, the merlin, and the sparrow-hawk.
From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob
The King's gerfalcon having struck down a rook, and finding the sport but tame, bethought herself suddenly of that noble heron, which she still perceived fluttering over Crooksbury Heath.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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