Chaucer Definition

chôsər
pronoun

A rare medieval English surname​, possibly of French origin; no longer current.

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Geoffrey Chaucer, a 14th century English author, best remembered for The Canterbury Tales.

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Origin of Chaucer

  • From Old French chaucier (“maker of chausses”), from chauces (“clothing for the legs, breeches, pantaloons, hose”). Also see case.

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Chaucer Sentence Examples

  • In the first, or general, prologue, Douglas claims a higher position for Virgil than for his master Chaucer, and attacks Caxton for his inadequate rendering of a French translation of the Aeneid.

  • Lydgate followed in the wake of Chaucer.

  • Douglas is in all important respects even more of a medievalist than his contemporaries; and, like Henryson and Dunbar, strictly a member of the allegorical school and a follower, in the most generous way, of Chaucer's art.

  • After 1390 - but whilst he was still a young man - he made the acquaintance of Geoffrey Chaucer, with whose son Thomas he was on terms of considerable intimacy.

  • Chaucer translated it into English prose before the year 1382; and this translation was published by Caxton at Westminster, 1480.

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