gerfalcon
Britishnoun
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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 Henry Yule
Then said Sir Giffroun, "Sir Le Beau Disconus, you have lost the gerfalcon."
From The Junior Classics — Volume 4 by William Patten
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
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 Sir Thomas Malory
It occurred to me that it might be the famous gerfalcon, or Icelandic eagle; and, on mentioning this supposition, Raed and Kit both agreed with me that it seemed likely.
From Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
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