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tiercel gentle

tiercel gentle is the alternative form 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

Forms of tiercel gentle

pluraltiercel gentles
pluraltiercels gentle

Questions about tiercel gentle

What is tiercel gentle the alternative form of?
Tiercel gentle is the alternative form of tercel gentle.

Words near tiercel gentle in the dictionary

  1. tierable
  2. tierce
  3. tierce de Picardie
  4. tierced
  5. tiercel
  6. tiercel gentle
  7. tiercelet
  8. tiercelets
  9. tiercels
  10. tierceron
  11. tiercerons

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