chanticleer
Example Sentences
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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
You could even see plainly a Calvinistic chanticleer on one of the church towers!
From Heathen Master Filcsik by Mikszáth, Kálmán
In the deep and dismal solitude of these woodlands the lone wanderer would have been startled by the barking of the watch-dog, or the shrill clarion of a chanticleer.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles
His first duty as chanticleer was to wake “Icicle Ike” and “Push Charlie,” the teamsters, whose hungry charges were stamping impatient hoofs in the hovel.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
