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.)
c. 1305. Land Cokaygne, 97, in E. E. P. (1862), 159. Chalandre and wodwale, And oþer briddes wiþout tale.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 81. Than is blisful many sithe The chelaundre and the papyngay. Ibid., 663. Chalaundres fele sawe I there.
