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plural chanticleers
(now rare, literary) A domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales. quotations
When I did hear / The motley fool, thus moral on the time, / My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, / That fools should be so deep-contemplative […].
c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 2, scene 7
It is happily some particular sense that unto cockes or chanticleares discovereth the morning and midnight houre, and moveth them to crow […].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
third-person singular simple present chanticleers, present participle chanticleering, simple past and past participle chanticleered
To make the crowing sound of a cock. examples
To crow in exultation. examples