tercelet
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From tercel.
Noun
tercelet (plural tercelets)
- A male falcon, especially a peregrine falcon or goshawk; a tercel.
- 1999, Geoffrey Lester, Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays, page 110:
- In the Squire's Tale this is expressed in avian terms when the tercelet flies off with a kite;
- 1999, Geoffrey Lester, Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays, page 110:
Middle English
Noun
tercelet
- tercelet
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Squire's Tale”, in Canterbury Tales:
- Tho dwelte a tercelet me faste by, / That semed welle of alle gentillesse
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