Also 5 falcon gent. [After F. faucon gentil.] A name applied to the female and young of the Goshawk (Astur palumbarius).

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1393.  Gower, Conf., III. 147. As a gentil faucon soreth.

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c. 1400.  Maundev. (1839), xxii. 238. Gerfacouns, sparehaukes, faukons gentyls.

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c. 1435.  Torrent of Portugal, 479.

        To Torrent trew ase stylle,
Yf he love Desonelle wylle,
    Get her a facon jent.

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1486.  Bk. St. Albans, D iij b. Ther is a Fawken gentill and a Tercell gentill.

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1615.  Chapman, Odyss., XIII. 136.

                        As firm as fast
She ply’d her course yet: nor her winged speed
The falcon-gentle could for pace exceed.

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1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1862), I. II. iii. 314. The falcon gentle, with which, when properly trained, they go forth on horseback.

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