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).