jerfalcon

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Noun

jerfalcon (plural jerfalcons)

  1. Alternative form of gyrfalcon
    • 1668 June 22 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), John Dryden, An Evening’s Love, or The Mock-Astrologer. , In the Savoy : T N for Henry Herringman, , published 1671, →OCLC, Act IV, page 53:
      For I obſerve, that all vvomen of your condition are like the vvomen of the Play-houſe, ſtill Piquing at each other, vvho ſhall go the beſt Dreſt, and in the Richeſt Habits: till you vvork up one another by your high flying, as the Heron and Jerfalcon do.