[a. obs. F. tartaret, also tartarot (16th c. in Godef.), f. TARTAR sb.2: app. because supposed to come from Tartary.] In full tartaret falcon: the Barbary Falcon, Falco barbarus.
1575. Turberv., Falconrie, 26. That falcon which is called the Tartaret or Barbary Falcon, whome they doe chiefly vse in Barbary.
1860. H. Ainsworth, Ovingdean Grange, 61. Gallant to behold was the Barbary or tartaret falcon.
1867. ‘Ouida,’ C. Castlemaine (1879), 11. She would stroke, half sadly, the smooth feathers of her tartaret falcon Gabrielle.
