harfang

French harfang

harfang (plural harfangs)

1. (obsolete) snowy owl
   • 1875, Édouard Amand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet, Henry Christy, Thomas Rupert Jones, Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ (page 247)

     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; […]

Borrowed from Swedish harfång.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aʁ.fɑ̃/

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harfang m (plural harfangs)

1. snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus)

   Synonym: harfang des neiges

• “harfang”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.