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tercel gentle

tercel gentle noun: a male falcon.

Noun

tercel gentle (plural tercel gentles or tercels gentle)

  1. A male falcon.
    • Like as a fearefull Dove, which through the raine / Of the wide ayre her way does cut amaine, / Having farre off espyde a Tassell gent, / Which after her his nimble winges doth straine, / Doubleth her hast for feare to bee for-hent [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • O for a Falkners voice, / To lure this Tassell gentle backe againe [...].c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Forms of tercel gentle

pluraltercel gentles
pluraltercels gentle

Origin of tercel gentle

Ultimately from Latin tertius (“third”) (for complete etymology, see tercel) + gentle (in the archaic sense of "well-born, noble"), ultimately from Latin gens (“[Roman] clan”) (for complete etymology, see gentle)

Questions about tercel gentle

What does tercel gentle mean?
Tercel gentle means a male falcon.
What part of speech is tercel gentle?
Tercel gentle is a noun.
What is the plural of tercel gentle?
The plural of tercel gentle is tercel gentles.

Words near tercel gentle in the dictionary

  1. terbuficin
  2. terbutaline
  3. terbuthylazine
  4. terce
  5. tercel
  6. tercel gentle
  7. tercel gentles
  8. tercelet
  9. tercelets
  10. tercels
  11. tercels gentle

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