chanticleer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   literary: a rooster, especially one personified in a fable or story

   At sunrise the chanticleer crowed from the top rail of the fence.

From Middle English Chauntecleer and Old French Chantecler, the proper name of the rooster in the beast-fable cycle of Reynard the Fox. The name combines chanter, 'to sing or crow,' with cler, 'clear or clearly,' so it means roughly 'sing clearly.' English later turned the character's name into a literary common noun for any rooster.

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