Brewer's: Falcon Peregrine

or Pelerin. La seconde ligme est faucons que hom apels “pelerins,” par ce que nus ne trouve son ni; ains est pris autresi come en pelerinage, et est mult legiers a norrir, et mult cortis, et vaillans, et de bone maniere. (Tresor de Brunst Latin: Des Faucons.)

“A faukoun peregryn than semëd sche”

“Of fremdë [foreign] land.”

Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (10,742).

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