tercel

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A numerous and gay band he brought two hundred of them in his suite; and there was none, whoever he be, but had a falcon or tercel, a merlin or a sparrow-hawk, or some precious pigeon-hawk, golden or mewed.

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  1. noun A male hawk used in falconry.

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  1. Middle English, from Old French terçuel, from Vulgar Latin *tertiōlus, diminutive of Latin tertius, third; see trei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also tiercel, terselle, tarsel, and by assimilation tassel, tassell; from Middle English tercel, tersel, tercelle, terselle, from Old French tercel = Provencal tersol = Spanish terzuelo = Italian terzuolo, from Middle Latin tertiolus, a male hawk, literally ‘*thirdling,’ so called because, in popular notion, of three eggs laid by a hawk, the third was sure to produce a male, of smaller size than the others; diminutive of Latin tertius, third: see terce, tertian, third.
 

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/ˈtərsɛl/
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