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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
lanneret .
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Examples
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If it were to go a-hawking or a-hunting, the ladies mounted upon dainty well-paced nags, seated in a stately palfrey saddle, carried on their lovely fists, miniardly begloved every one of them, either a sparrowhawk or a laneret or a marlin, and the young gallants carried the other kinds of hawks.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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If it were to go a-hawking or a-hunting, the ladies mounted upon dainty well-paced nags, seated in a stately palfrey saddle, carried on their lovely fists, miniardly begloved every one of them, either a sparrowhawk or a laneret or a marlin, and the young gallants carried the other kinds of hawks.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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If it were to go a hawking, or a hunting, the ladies mounted upon dainty well-paced nags, seated in a stately palfrey saddle, carried on their lovely fists either a sparhawk, or a laneret, or a marlin, and the young gallants carried the other kinds of hawks.
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 Various 1904
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"Is your breviary needful when you go forth to practise a laneret?"
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If it were to go a-hawking or a-hunting, the ladies mounted upon dainty well-paced nags, seated in a stately palfrey saddle, carried on their lovely fists, miniardly begloved every one of them, either a sparrowhawk or a laneret or a marlin, and the young gallants carried the other kinds of hawks.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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p [ro] chyn auenpart ascun _hawke_ de le brode dengl 'appell vne _nyesse_, _goshawke_, _lan_, ou _laneret_ sur sa mayn, sur peyn de forfaiture son _hawke_, et que null enchasse ascun hawke hors de c [ou] uerte sur peyne de forfaiture x li. lun moyte al roy et lauter a celuy que voet sur.'
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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