chanticleer
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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 Kálmán Mikszáth
After him went Sir Philip, reminding me in his shrunken confidence of a rain-drenched chanticleer.
From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall
The cup of the young man's content was at that moment brimming over, and the impudent chanticleer who only five minutes before had tortured him from the garden palings, was quite forgotten.
From Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Henry Morford
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