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

When at midnight the chanticleer crowed, The black colt of Alain awaited his master Just outside the door.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

The Lancashire Mooneys, on the contrary, produce cocks with as fine flowing plumage as need grace any chanticleer in the land, and tails with sickle-feathers twenty-two inches long, fine flowing saddle-feathers, and abundant hackle.

From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Piper, Hugh

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

From Heathen Master Filcsik by Mikszáth, Kálmán