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

I well remember a venerable chanticleer, who, perched on the tree among his hens, would always foretell the coming storm of the morrow, by sounding forth in the evening, and often, his defiant note.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden

The subway was to him "the great nickel adventure"; a ride on the elevated railroad, "a�rial journeying"; his alarm clock, "the urban chanticleer."

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce

After him went Sir Philip, reminding me in his shrunken confidence of a rain-drenched chanticleer.

From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay