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

A pair of blankets had been stolen from him—as also his chanticleer.

From When the Cock Crows by Baily, Waldron

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 Day, Holman

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 Morford, Henry