gerfalcon
[jur-fawl-kuh n, -fal-, -faw-]
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noun
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Historical Examples of gerfalcon
Or shall I show you, sire, how a peregrine may win where a gerfalcon fails?
Sir NigelArthur Conan Doyle
But the falcon was indeed a thoroughbred, with the eye of a gerfalcon.
Marguerite de ValoisAlexandre Dumas
He put his gerfalcon on the perch provided in the hall for such use by the guests.
Life on a Mediaeval BaronyWilliam Stearns Davis
To Audubon's delight, it was that rare specimen, the gerfalcon, which had heretofore eluded all efforts of naturalists.
Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860Henrietta Christian Wright
And who that putteth that knight to the worse shall have a fair maid and a gerfalcon.
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II)Thomas Malory
gerfalcon
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