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Falconry   Listen
noun
Falconry  n.  
1.
The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.
2.
The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.





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"Falconry" Quotes from Famous Books



... which were in the king's library in the palace, and transported them to the Louvre...; and for having put all together again, and hung up the cases (lettrins) in the two upper stages of the tower that looks toward the Falconry, to put the king's books in; and for having panelled ... the first of those two stories all round inside." Next a wire-worker (cagetier) is paid "for having made trellises of wire in front of two casements and two windows ... to ...
— Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods - The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894 • J. W. Clark
... hunting pictures, and some grim portraits of the Squire's ancestors. On one side was a bookcase, on the shelves of which were a few standard legal works, with others on sporting subjects, veterinary, falconry, horses and dogs, and other branches of ...
— Dick Cheveley - His Adventures and Misadventures • W. H. G. Kingston
... our "Saker" the falcon, not to be confounded with the old Falco Sacer, the Gr. {Greek letters}. Falconry which, like all arts, began in Egypt, is an extensive subject throughout Moslem lands. I must refer my readers to "Falconry in the Valley of the Indus" (Van Voorst, 1852) and a long note in ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "Falconry" :   hood, falcon, prowess, artistry


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