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Meanings of chanticleer in English

A male chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), a domestic bird.

Usage of chanticleer in English
1
Once down, however, he shook his fluttered plumes, and crowed like any chanticleer.
Sir Ludar / A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
2
Early in the morning the voice of the chanticleer is heard greeting the dawn.
Jean François Millet / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Po...
3
From time to time was heard the crowing of some chanticleer aroused too soon.
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
4
For undertones, a neighboring wood-pecker tapping his tree, and the distant clarion of chanticleer.
Complete Prose Works / Specimen Days and Collect, November Bough...
5
The gallant chanticleer has, at command, his amorous phrases, and his terms of defiance.
The Natural History of Selborne
6
Why, even a tall chanticleer makes a home look homely.
Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
7
A barnyard chanticleer and his family afford more matter than the best book ever written.
Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
8
And o'er the farms, "O chanticleer, Your clarion blow; the day is near."
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
9
The piercing note of the chanticleer is heard.
American Scenes, and Christian Slavery / A Recent Tour of Four T...
10
At the same time, it is the chanticleer-note to the ghost that has so long overawed us.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
11
But nor clock nor chanticleer disturbed Wimbledon.
Eventide / A Series of Tales and Poems
12
Upon almost every steeple, chanticleer towers shining in the sun and wildly careering in the winds of spring.
England of My Heart : Spring
13
You shall hear the smith's call sound by cock crowing; I warrant I put sir chanticleer to shame.
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
14
He is still the party chanticleer.
The Boss and the Machine: A Chronicle of the Politicians and Par...
15
But an Eagle, circling overhead, heard the boasting chanticleer and, swooping down, carried him off to his nest.
The Aesop for Children / With pictures by Milo Winter
16
Hark to shrill chanticleer's feathered rival!
Vivian Grey
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