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

But, sacre! my young chanticleer, surely you are not here to bring me this bit of news.

From Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Parrish, Randall

Still that’s beside our purpose, which is this— To scan the statute, microscope in hand, And note if in its sweep humane, we see A roosting place for fighting chanticleer.

From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various

The great cart-horse, the old barn up the road, the hollow tree, the dry reeds, the birds, and chanticleer himself— High was his comb, and coral red withal, In dents embattled like a castle wall.

From Amaryllis at the Fair by Jefferies, Richard