Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete spellings of falcon, falconer.
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Examples
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The thematic treatment had been that favored by Mont - faucon in his L'Antiquité expliquée, still in use in the second half of the eighteenth century.
NEO-CLASSICISM IN ART DAVID IRWIN 1968
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The oustrich fether gold, the pen gold, and a faucon in his proper coulor and the Sonne Rising.
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And the Court told Ralph no matter 'que le feisant leva hors de le garrein, vostre faucon luy pursuy en le garrein.'
The Dragon of Wantley His Tale Owen Wister 1899
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"Ralph pleaded before the Judge saying, 'et nous lessamus nostre faucon voler à luy, et il le pursuy en le garrein,' -- 'tis just your position, only 'twas you that pursued and not your falcon, which does not in the least distinguish the cases."
The Dragon of Wantley His Tale Owen Wister 1899
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We will conclude this _Hawking_ note with the following excerpt from one of the earliest editions of the abridgment of our statutes: -- 'nul home pringe les oves dascu [n] _faucon_, _goshawke_, _lan_, ou swan hors de le nyst sur peyn de inprison p [our] vn an et vn iour et de faire fyn all volunte le roy et que nul home puis le fest de paque
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Cypre, je ne sais combien d'aunes d'écarlate, une quarantaine de pains de sucre, un faucon pélerin et deux arbalètes, avec une douzaine de vires.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The most pressure may have been felt by Paula Zahn, who makes her living disseminating the news, and who had now become not only part of an international story — Le Monde dubbed Pale Male New York's "faucon fétiche," or hawk fetish — but also part of a story in which, by virtue of her association with the building and her marriage to the board president, she could be perceived as elitist and uncaring, two labels that television journalists strive to avoid.
Ruffled Feathers on Fifth Avenue DiGiacomo, Frank 2005
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Les siens 閠oient six pi鑓es de camelot de Cypre, je ne sais combien d’aunes d’閏arlate, une quarantaine de pains de sucre, un faucon p閘erin et deux arbal鑤es, avec une douzaine de vires.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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5.3.59: And as a faucon free that soreth in the ayre,
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C'étoient des bâtons avec _ailes de faucon_ attachées au bout "-- Decouvertes, p. 268.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Robert Kerr 1784
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