Meaning of Chaucer | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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“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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