gaviaõ

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Noun[edit]

gaviaõ m (plural gavioens)

  1. Obsolete spelling of gavião
    • 1793, Miguel do Couto Guerreiro, “Epigramma IX”, in Epigrammas portuguezes, volume I, page 6:
      Em muitos livros já li, / Que os oſſos do gaviaõ / Attrahem o oiro a ſi; / Mas eu eſta attracçaõ vi / Nas unhas, nos oſſos naõ.
      I have read in a lot of books that the bones of a hawk could attract gold; but I have seen this attraction on the nails, not on the bones.