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▪ I. ‖ chanterelle1
[a. F. chanterelle, It. cantarella treble string of a musical instrument, bird-call, call-bird, f. cantāre to sing.]
†1. A decoy bird. (In quot. A female partridge used as a decoy.) Obs.
1601Holland Pliny I. 289 Forth they goe against the foulers chanterell or watch which calleth them out.
‖2. (See quot.)
1878Grove Dict. Mus. I. 135 The chanterelle or melody-string [in the banjo] is called from its use..the thumbstring. Ibid. II. 176 Making thirteen strings in all [for the lute], the highest, or Chanterelle, being a single string.
▪ II. chanterelle2|ˈtʃɑːntəˌrɛl, ˈtʃæ-|
Also chantarelle.
[a. Fr. chanterelle: in mod.L. cantharellus, dim. of cantharus drinking-vessel.]
A yellow kind of edible fungus (Cantharellus cibarius).
1775Lightfoot Flora Scot. (1777) II. 1008 Yellow Agaric or Chanterelle. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxxii. 501 The Chanterelle, or little Yellow Mushroom, so common in the fairy rings on dry pastures. 1859All Y. Round No. 15. 342 The beautiful yellow chantarelle, growing by the bushel. 1880M. Collins Th. in Garden II. 12 Myriads of mushrooms, morels, truffles, chantarelles, champignons are wasted..because the poor do not understand their use. |