Meanings
plural harfangs
- obsoletesnowy owl
At La Madelaine, also, it was the leavings of the meals that brought about the accumulation of bird-bones; but, together with numerous Tetraones and Cocks, we find the remains of several Harfangs. […] It seems […] that the men of the Lherm Cave ate this Owl; […]
1875, Édouard Amand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet, Henry Christy, Thomas Rupert Jones, Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ, page 247
Origin
- Swedishharfång
- Frenchharfang
- Englishharfang
Borrowed from French harfang, itself borrowed from Swedish harfång.
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