gerfalcon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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And who that putteth that knight to the worse shall have a fair maid and a gerfalcon.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
A gerfalcon, a tercell of gerfalcon are due to a king.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
If it had not have been for that little bird at Chilton you might have hoodwinked me as blind as ever gerfalcon was hooded.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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 Patten, William
But pressing forward again, they came upon a gerfalcon lying, with long lunes tangled about his feet and through his breast the hole that Sir Dinar's bolt had made.
From Wandering Heath by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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