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Definition of Falcon-gentle
1. Noun. Female falcon especially a female peregrine falcon.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falcon-gentle
Literary usage of Falcon-gentle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or, The Country Gentleman's Companion, in All ...Sports (1735)
"... falcon gentle, or flight falcons, (which are naturally all of one kind, yet
differ much in quality and condition) which are to be left to the judgment ..."
2. The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan by Dodgson Hamilton Madden (1897)
"Falcon- gentle, a name applied to the female and young of the goshawk, 1393,
Gower, COM/, iii. 147. As a gentil-falcon soreth. 1486, Bk. St. Albans. ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Same as falcon-gentle.—Gentle reader, courteous, considerate reader : a phrase
common until recently especially in the prefaces of hooks. ..."
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