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 she, "good, easy soul," was quite accustomed to that sort of thing, and stood gazing upon him as serenely as a well-fed Biddy might on an enraged barn-yard chanticleer.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
Far across the fields, the note of the chanticleer rang out; the gulf closed, the porch of the house-boat stood empty, and the moon and the stars paled at what they had seen.
From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke
In a corner chanticleer stood, preening his feathers and restoring his ruffled dignity, while we compared opinions.
From The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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