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Definition of Falconets
1. falconet [n] - See also: falconet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falconets
Literary usage of Falconets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"Cat-whiskered, eyed like falconets! Great pomp of plume hides and offsets Holes
in those hats they wear askew . . . Cat-whiskered, eyed like ..."
2. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1898)
"Cat-whiskered, eved like falconets! Great pomp of plume hides and offsets Holes
m those hats they wear askew . . . his due! ..."
3. History of Alaska: 1730-1885 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Alfred Bates, Ivan Petroff, William Nemos (1886)
"The provisions were distributed as follows: The armament consisted of 2 copper
half-pound falconets, ..."
4. Drake and the Tudor Navy: With a History of the Rise of England as a by Julian Stafford Corbett (1898)
"He claimed for one demi-culverin, two sakers, three minions, two falcons, three
falconets, four Portugal bases of brass, and four great fowlers—that is, ..."
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