chansonneur, n.m., lampooner.

chansonnier, n.m., ballad-writer; song-book.

chansonnière, n.f., song-writer (woman).

chant, n.m., singing, strain, song; air; lay, ditty, melody; chant, hymn, book. Plain —; plain chant, canto fermo. Le — du coq; the crowing of the cock. — funèbre; dirge.

chantable, adj., fit to be sung, worth singing.

chantage, n.m., extortion of hush money; blackmailing.

chantant, -e, adj., tunable, easily sung, easily set to music; musical, harmonious.

chanteau, n.m., hunch of bread; bit of stuff.

chantepleure (shant-pleur), n.f., funnel with a rose; gully-hole.

chantepleurer, v.a., to tread (grapes).