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English
tiercel gentle, tassell gent, tassell gentle, tassel-gentle
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin tertius (“third”) (for complete etymology, see tercel) + gentle (in the archaic sense of "well-born, noble"), ultimately from Latin gens (“ clan”) (for complete etymology, see gentle)[1][2]
Noun
tercel gentle (plural tercel gentles or tercels gentle)
- A male falcon.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: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 [...].
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 Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):O for a Falkners voice, / To lure this Tassell gentle backe againe [...].
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter 4, in The Abbot. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC:Marry, out upon thee, foul kite, that would fain be a tercel gentle.
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References
- ^ Swann, Harry Kirke (1913) “Falcon Gentle or Gentile Falcon”, in A Dictionary of English and Folk-names of British Birds: With Their History, Meaning, and First Usage, and the Folk-lore, Weather-lore, Legends, Etc., Relating to the More Familiar Species, London: Witherby & Company, →DOI, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84
- ^ Walker, Adrian (2000) “Falcon Gentle; Falcon-Gentle”, in The Encyclopedia of Falconry, Lanham: Derrydale Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33