golden eagle

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large North American eagle, Aquila chrysaetos.

Quotations

1784

A variety of the Golden Eagle is also a native of the same place.

1935

The head-dress of golden eagle feathers swaying in the wind still symbolizes, for imaginative youth, "trailing clouds of glory."

1964

. . . he actually succeeded in carrying alive two eagles, a golden, and a bald, only to have them die when two-thirds of the journey were ended!