gerfalcon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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This white bird is a gerfalcon from the north.
From The King in Yellow by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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 Patten, William
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 Malory, Thomas, Sir
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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
The cut below exhibits the conventional effigy of a gerfalcon as sculptured over one of the gates of Iconium, Polo's Conia.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry
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