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Falcon Peregrine or Pelʹerin

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La seconde lignie est faucons que hom apele “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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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Fairy of the Mine
Fait Accompli (French)
Faith
Faithful
Fakâr (Dhul)
Fake
Fakenham Ghost
Fakir (Indian)
Falcon and Falconet
Falcon Gentle (A)
Falcon Peregrine or Pelerin
Fald-stool
Faldistory
Falernian
Falkland
Fal-lals
Fall
Fall Away (To)
Fall Flat (To)
Fall Foul
Fall From (To)