chanticleer

English

Etymology

From Old French chantecler, the proper name of the cock in Reynard the Fox.

Noun

chanticleer (plural chanticleers)

1. (now rare) A rooster or cock.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 2, scene 7:

     When I did heare / The motley Foole, thus morall on the time, / My Lungs began to crow like Chanticleere, / That Fooles should be so deepe contemplatiue [...].

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:

     It is happily some particular sense that unto cockes or chanticleares discovereth the morning and midnight houre, and moveth them to crow [...].