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  • noun Plural form of tiercelet.

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Examples

  • Lanaret the falconer was in attendance, with falcons for the knights, and tiercelets for the ladies, if they should choose to vary their sport from huntirng to hawking.

    Waverley 2004

  • "And you were nothing but under-corporal of the tiercelets," replied

    The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • [7] "And you were nothing but under-corporal of the tiercelets," replied

    The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • The descendants of those tiercelets are even now known in France under those names.

    The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

  • Peter Lanaret the falconer was in attendance, with falcons for the knights, and tiercelets for the ladies, if they should choose to vary their sport from hunting to hawking.

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • The descendants of those tiercelets are even now known in France under those names.

    Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 06: Paris Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • The descendants of those tiercelets are even now known in France under those names.

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • Let them not permit that a gentleman shall appear in place of respect without his sword, unbuttoned and untrussed, as though he came from the house of office; and that, contrary to the custom of our forefathers and the particular privilege of the nobles of this kingdom, we stand a long time bare to them in what place soever, and the same to a hundred others, so many tiercelets and quartelets of kings we have got nowadays and other like vicious innovations: they will see them all presently vanish and cried down.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • Let them not permit that a gentleman shall appear in place of respect without his sword, unbuttoned and untrussed, as though he came from the house of office; and that, contrary to the custom of our forefathers and the particular privilege of the nobles of this kingdom, we stand a long time bare to them in what place soever, and the same to a hundred others, so many tiercelets and quartelets of kings we have got nowadays and other like vicious innovations: they will see them all presently vanish and cried down.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 07 Michel de Montaigne 1562

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