chanticleer

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

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 Holman Day

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 Hugh Piper

The chanticleer had not yet done with his chant When the black colt was galloping swiftly over the road.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue