chanticleer

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The voice is a sort of crow—hoarse and short, and very different from the clear notes of defiance uttered by our farmyard chanticleer.

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

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

Here and there a goat gravely stalking along, happily unconscious of its impending doom; and chanticleer surrounded by a small harem trying to make the best of things.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.