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Avauntour
A-vaunt′our
,Noun.
[OF.
avanteur
.] A boaster.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Definition 2024
avauntour
avauntour
English
Alternative forms
- avaunter
Noun
avauntour (plural avauntours)
- (obsolete) One who boasts (avaunts).
- 1482 (earliest extant version), Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book III-314
- Y-wis, I am avauntour at the leste, / And lyere, for I breke my biheste.
- 1482 (earliest extant version), Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book III-314
References
- avauntour in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914