chaunterie

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === chantre, chantry, chauntery, chauntre, chauntrie, chauntry, chauntrye, chauntuarye, chawnterye === Etymology === From Old French chaunterie; equivalent to chaunten +‎ -erie. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /t͡ʃa(u̯)nt(ə)ˈriː(ə)/, /ˈt͡ʃa(u̯)nt(ə)riː(ə)/ === Noun === chaunterie An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 509-510: A chantry (chapel set up for the above endowment) (rare) The chanting which occurs during Mass. c. 14th century, Gawain Poet, part I, stanza 4, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, line 62-63: ==== Descendants ==== English: chantry ==== References ==== “chaunterīe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 December 2019.