eaglet

eaglet Definition

eaglet (ē′glit)

noun

a young eagle

Etymology: Fr aiglette, dim. of aigle

eaglet Usage Examples

Converse of object

display: Arms: - Paly of six argent and azure, a bend gules, charged with a miter between two eaglets displayed, or.

eaglet Quotes

Dead echoes! But I knew her body there, Time like a serpent down her shoulder, dark, And space, an eaglet's wing, laid on her hair.

—Crane, (Harold) Hart

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