peregrine
\ PER-i-grin, -green, -grahyn \,
noun;
1.foreign; alien; coming from abroad.
2.wandering, traveling, or migrating.
noun:
1.peregrine falcon.
Quotes:
…an unmeasurable Profundity of Knowledge in the most peregrine and sublime Disciples…
-- Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux, The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Vol. 2 , 1864
"Salisbury Cathedral really is the ancestral home of the 'urban' peregrine , with records dating from the mid 1800s," he said.
-- "Salisbury Cathedral spire peregrine falcon chicks hatch," BBC , 2014
Origin:
Peregrine entered English in the late 1300s from the Latin peregrē literally meaning "beyond the borders of the field."
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