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lanner
[ lan-er ]
noun
- a falcon, Falco biarmicus, of southern Europe, northern Africa, and southern Asia.
- Falconry. the female of this bird.
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Origin of lanner1
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Origin of lanner1
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Example Sentences
She was but sixteen years of age, and had been with me eight years, being one of my Katti Lanner school children.
On the perfumed air the music swelled rapturously; a waltz, warm with the national life of Vienna; the swan song of Lanner!
In former days the saker, the lanner and the Barbary or Tunisian falcon were also employed.
That fellow Lanner is showing signs of interesting himself in the same quarter.
He has with him a very handsome falcon, a lanner like ours, but larger.
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