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
I well remember a venerable chanticleer, who, perched on the tree among his hens, would always foretell the coming storm of the morrow, by sounding forth in the evening, and often, his defiant note.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden
A double challenge is this gage, A gauntlet flung for love or war; As strutting barnyard chanticleer Defies his neighboring lord: So calls this crested pheasant-king For combat or for peace.
From Trail Tales by Gillilan, James David
He observed in the words of his favourite poet, that, my lungs did crow like chanticleer, and I did laugh sans intermission.
From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by Halidom, M. Y.
