chanticleer

American  

[chan-tuh-kleer] / ˈtʃæn təˌklɪər /

Also chantecler

noun

Now Literary.

1. a rooster: used as a proper name in medieval fables.

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chanticleer British  

/ ˌtʃæntɪˈklɪə, ˌtʃæntɪˈklɛə /

noun

1. a name for a cock, used esp in fables

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Etymology

Origin of chanticleer

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English Chauntecler, from Old French Chantecler noun use of verb phrase chante cler “sing clear.” See chant, clear

Example Sentences

For in 1933 the automobile industry stalked out of Depression wearing all the airs of chanticleer.

From Time Magazine Archive

The chanticleer in question, it turned out last week, is hip-high Billy Rose, Broadway's No. 1 spectaclemaker.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Lancashire Mooneys, on the contrary, produce cocks with as fine flowing plumage as need grace any chanticleer in the land, and tails with sickle-feathers twenty-two inches long, fine flowing saddle-feathers, and abundant hackle.

From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Piper, Hugh

When I looked forth upon this moving scene my lungs began to "crow like chanticleer."

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

You could even see plainly a Calvinistic chanticleer on one of the church towers!

From Heathen Master Filcsik by Mikszáth, Kálmán