Chanticleerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɑːntɪˌklɪə/, enPR: chänʹtĭklĭr'
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæntəˌklɪɹ/, /ˈʃæntəˌklɪɹ/, enPR: chănʹtəklĭr', shănʹtəklĭr'
• ハイフネーション: chan‧ti‧cleer

名詞

chanticleer (複数形 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^[1], 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, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

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