chanticleer

American  

[chan-tuh-kleer] / ˈtʃæn təˌklɪər /

Also chantecler

noun

Now Literary.

1. a rooster: used as a proper name in medieval fables.

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chanticleer British  

/ ˌtʃæntɪˈklɪə, ˌtʃæntɪˈklɛə /

noun

1. a name for a cock, used esp in fables

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Etymology

Origin of chanticleer

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English Chauntecler, from Old French Chantecler noun use of verb phrase chante cler “sing clear.” See chant, clear

Example Sentences

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 double challenge is this gage, A gauntlet flung for love or war; As strutting barnyard chanticleer Defies his neighboring lord: So calls this crested pheasant-king For combat or for peace.

From Trail Tales by Gillilan, James David

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

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

From Heathen Master Filcsik by Mikszáth, Kálmán