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tercels gentle

tercels gentle is the plural of tercel gentle.

Meaning of tercel gentle

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

Questions about tercels gentle

What is tercels gentle the plural of?
Tercels gentle is the plural of tercel gentle.

Words near tercels gentle in the dictionary

  1. tercel gentle
  2. tercel gentles
  3. tercelet
  4. tercelets
  5. tercels
  6. tercels gentle
  7. tercentenarian
  8. tercentenarians
  9. tercentenaries
  10. tercentenary
  11. tercentennial

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