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chanticleer

[chan-tuh-kleer] / ˈtʃæn təˌklɪər /


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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

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

From Heathen Master Filcsik by Kálmán Mikszáth

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 Thomas Belden Butler

When shrill chanticleer pierces the dull ear of morn.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll


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