formel
noun1
Rare An adult female hawk or eagle.
- "There was a serpent in the gryphon's eye, he realized slowly, a snake and a hawk that danced and circled one another. The formel's voice lilted, drifting in and out of his thoughts."1987, Meredith Ann Pierce, Birth of the Firebringer, page 39:
- "... and as, in “The Assembly of Fowls,” the formel or female eagle, who is supposed to represent the Lady Blanche, ..."1879, David Laing Purves, The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems:
- Related terms
- tiercel