Chaucer

//ˈt͡ʃɔsɚ// name

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  1. 1
    A rare medieval English surname from Old French.
  2. 2
    A rare medieval English surname from Old French.; Geoffrey Chaucer, a 14th-century English poet and author, best remembered for The Canterbury Tales; (by extension) his works.

    "After all, the English hostel owes much of its charms to Chaucer; our associations are of his haunting pictures—his delicate Lady Prioress, his comely young squire, with their pleasant interchange of tale and legend, rise upon the mind's eye in all the fascination of his vivid delineations."

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geoffrey chaucer

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"They referred to Chaucer as the father of English poetry."

Etymology

From Middle English Chaucer, from Old French chaucier (“hose-maker, hosier”), from chauces (“clothing for the legs, breeches, pantaloons, hose”). Compare the modern loanword chausse.

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