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Falconry
noun
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Noun
- 1 The sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks. countable, uncountable
"...looking up, I observed a very slight and graceful hawk, like a night-hawk, alternately soaring like a ripple and tumbling a rod or two over and over, showing the underside of its wings, which gleamed like a satin ribbon in the sun, or like the pearly inside of a shell. This sight reminded me of falconry and what nobleness and poetry are associated with that sport."
- 2 the art of training falcons to hunt and return wordnet
Etymology
From French fauconnerie.
See also for "falconry"
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