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

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

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

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

From Heathen Master Filcsik by Mikszáth, Kálmán