chanticler

Updated: May 7, 2025

This noble baron, famous for discomfiting a vast number of infidels, died, without "or" or "fer," as naked as a worm, near Jerusalem, on the plains of Ascalon, ambulances not being then invented. The chanticler of the Correze lives in the rue de Paradis-Poissoniere, number 29, which is a highly suitable location for a poet of the angelic school. Letters must be post-paid.

Honoré de Balzac - Modeste Mignon

The addition of a single flower may be permitted, though this is like the admission of the camel's nose into the tent, it may lead to the entrance of the hump the monstrosity of the modern woman's bonnet, which of late years has by terms imitated a flower garden, a vegetable garden, an orchard, and, finally, with the Chanticler fad, a poultry-yard.

Marion Mills Miller - Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife