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

Great chanticleer was pleased to give A patronizing crow, And the contemptuous biddies clucked, "I wish my chicks did so."

From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Alcott, Louisa May

Of a sudden he noticed his favorite chanticleer, followed by his numerous harem, sadly strutting about, only allowing his favorites to eat the morsels he discovered, and ruthlessly driving the others away.

From Told in the Coffee House Turkish Tales by Adler, Cyrus

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 Sue, Eug?ne