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/ˈtʃɑːntɪˌklɪə/ · noun
(now rare, literary) A domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales..
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[…].
It is happily some particular sense that unto cockes or chanticleares discovereth the morning and midnight houre, and moveth them to crow[…].
Use chanticleer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chanticleer means (now rare, literary) A domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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[…].
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