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Word Meanings - AVANT-COURIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

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  • HARBINGER
    provides lodging, fr. herbergier to provide lodging, F. héberger, OF. 1. One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings. Fuller.
  • HERALD
    An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. 2. In the Middle Ages, the officer
  • HERALDRY
    The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.
  • PREDECESSOR
    One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position. A prince who was as watchful as his predecessor had been over the interests of the
  • HERALDICALLY
    In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry.
  • HERALDIC
    Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language. T. Warton.
  • PRECURSORY
    Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.
  • HERALDSHIP
    The office of a herald. Selden.
  • AVANT-COURIER
    A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.
  • PRECURSORSHIP
    The position or condition of a precursor. Ruskin.
  • FORERUNNER
    A piece of rag terminating the log line. (more info) 1. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in
  • PRECURSOR
    One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger. Evil thoughts are the invisible, airy precursors of all the storms and tempests of the soul. Buckminster. Syn. -- Predecessor; forerunner; harbinger;
  • COHERALD
    A joint herald.

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