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† chaˈlandre Obs.
Also 4 chal-, chelaundre.
[perh. repr. OF. *chalandre, var. of calandre, in Pr. calandri, app. (with Romanic insertion of n, and dissimilation of r–r to l–r):—L. caradrius, ad. Gr. χαραδριός a species of bird. (See P. Meyer Contes moralisés de Bozon Notes 248.)]
ME. form of calander, a Mediterranean species of lark, Alauda calandra. (To ME. writers probably only a name, known from French romances.)
c1305Land Cokaygne 97 in E.E.P. (1862) 159 Chalandre and wodwale, And oþer briddes wiþout tale. c1400Rom. Rose 81 Than is blisful many sithe The chelaundre and the papyngay. Ibid. 663 Chalaundres fele sawe I there. |
