English

Noun

chanticleer ‎(plural chanticleers)

1. (now rare, literary) A domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, “Act 2”, in As You Like It, scene 7:

     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 […].

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:

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

References

• “chanticleer” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
• “chanticleer” (US) / “chanticleer” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
• “chanticleer” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
• “chanticleer” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.