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noun

Falconet n.

One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.

(Zool.)

(a)

One of several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax.

(b)

One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice.

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Etymology of 'Falconet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Falconet" Quotes from Famous Books

... must finish it. It is really good, well fed with facts, true to the manners, and (for once in my works) rendered pleasing by the presence of a heroine who is pretty. Miss Uma is pretty; a fact. All my other women have been as ugly as sin, and like Falconet's horse (I have just been reading the anecdote in Lockhart), ...

— Vailima Letters • Robert Louis Stevenson

... the widow, "and my croft would be better tilled, if I could answer your reverence that he is not.—Practised archer!—marry, holy sir, I would he would practise something else—cross-bow and long-bow, hand-gun and hack-but, falconet and saker, he can shoot with them all. And if it would please this right honourable gentleman, our guest, to hold out his hat at the distance of a hundred yards, our Halbert shall send shaft, bolt, or bullet ...

— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott

... simply sacrilege), and goes to Moscow once a year on purpose. He invites me to Moscow in order to prove his assertion, and show me his leg's tomb, and the very cannon that shot him; he says it's the eleventh from the gate of the Kremlin, an old-fashioned falconet ...

— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky