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Middle English
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], : Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, , book III, : [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes , 1542, →OCLC, folio clxxxiiii, verso, column 1, lines 309–315: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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- “avauntour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E Smith, editors (1914), “avauntour”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.