1894 Brewer’s / B / Bird of Estë
The white eagle, the cognisance of the house.
“His dazzling way
The bird of Estë soars beyond the solar ray.”
Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered, x.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.