Crossword clues for chanticleer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chanticleer \Chan"ti*cleer\ (ch[a^]n"t[i^]*kl[=e]r), n. [F. Chanteclair, name of the cock in the Roman du Renart (Reynard the Fox); chanter to chant + clair clear. See Chant, and Clear.] A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context now rare English) A rooster or cock.
Wikipedia
Based in San Francisco, California, Chanticleer is a full-time male classical vocal ensemble in the United States. Over the last three decades, it has developed a major reputation for its interpretations of Renaissance music, but it also performs a wide repertoire of jazz, gospel, and other venturesome new music and is widely known as an "Orchestra of Voices". It was named for the " clear singing rooster" in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
Chanticleer may refer to:
Usage examples of "chanticleer".
Good idea, says the fox, and of course as soon as he opens his mouth, Chanticleer escapes up into a tree.
The fox tries to lure him down, but Chanticleer vows not to make the same mistake twice.
Yet Chanticleer teases her while serving her in a knightly fashion, implying that she doesn't know things that he knows and therefore shouldn't stick her beak in.
He gives a closeup description of Chanticleer and compares his comb to a "castle wall" (line 40), making him appear large, as if we're seeing him on a hen's-eye level.
We immediately recognize a fox, which obviously Chanticleer his never seen.
The change from comedy to a serious tone may represent the fact that fortune can change lives from cheerful to dismal, as indeed happens to Chanticleer later.
We are again reminded of fortune: Chanticleer has a "sorrowful cas" (accident, a word Chaucer never uses lightly), and we are reminded of the biblical teaching that "worldly joy is soon gone" (lines 384-386).
On another level, it's possible that the fox's use of flattery and deceit to win Chanticleer parallels the rooster's use of the same tactics to woo his wife.
We are told two contradictory things: that man is free to make his own choices (as Chanticleer is free to accept or reject Pertelote's advice), and that he is not free because everything is already destined (which means the fox will attack no matter whose advice Chanticleer follows).
We are given indications of both attitudes, since Chanticleer does "fall" by following the urgings of his practical wife, but he also attributes all the joy in his life to her love.
Her "day" is Friday, when the tournament takes place in the Knight's Tale, and when Chanticleer gets caught in the Nun's Priest's Tale.
Courteous she was, discreet and debonnaire, Companionable, and she had been so fair Since that same day when she was seven nights old, That truly she had taken the heart to hold Of Chanticleer, locked in her every limb.
So it befell that, in a bright dawning, As Chanticleer 'midst wives and sisters all Sat on his perch, the which was in the hall, And next him sat the winsome Pertelote, This Chanticleer he groaned within his throat Like man that in his dreams is troubled sore.
Thus regal, as a prince is in his hall, I'll now leave busy Chanticleer to feed, And with events that followed I'll proceed.
When that same month wherein the world began, Which is called March, wherein God first made man, Was ended, and were passed of days also, Since March began, full thirty days and two, It fell that Chanticleer, in all his pride, His seven wives a-walking by his side, Cast up his two eyes toward the great bright sun (Which through die sign of Taurus now had run Twenty degrees and one, and somewhat more), And knew by instinct and no other lore That it was prime, and joyfully he crew, "The sun, my love," he said, "has climbed anew Forty degrees and one, and somewhat more.