avauntour
Middle English
Alternative forms
- avaunter
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French avanteur or avantour; equivalent to avaunten + -our.
Noun
avauntour (plural avauntours)
- one who avaunts or boasts
- c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer; William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, OCLC 863541017; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book III, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, folio clxxxiiii, verso, lines 309–315, column 1:
- Auauntour and a lyer, al is one / As thus: I poſe a woman graunt me / Her loue, and ſayth that other woll ſhe none / And I am ſworne to holden it ſecre/ And after I tel it two or thre / Iwys I am auauntour at the leeſt / And lyer eke, for I breke my beheeſt.
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References
- avauntour in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avauntour”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.