cockerel
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Items include 12 brass plaques, known as Benin Bronzes, a brass cockerel and a key to the king's palace.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2022
After being looted, the cockerel was given to Jesus College in 1905 by the father of a student.
From Reuters • Oct. 27, 2021
A cockerel laying an egg, after all, was a "heinous and unnatural crime," the court found.
From Salon • Sep. 18, 2021
Then, in 1908, under the headline “A Poolsbrook Fowl Robbery,” it was reported that Trainer had been charged with stealing a cockerel and three hens.
From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2019
After all, it could easily have been understood that I was suggesting the landlord's wife resembled a cockerel - an intention that had not remotely entered my head at the time.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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