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Encyclopaedia Londinensis
Shalcspeare, VAUNT-COURIER, s. [avant courier, Fr.] A precursor. See
VANCOURIER. You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to
oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head I Skakspeare, VA'UNTER, s. [
vantewy Fr.] ...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ...
Spenser. To VAUNT, v. n. To play the braggart ; to talk with ostentation. Milton.
VAUNT. I. [from the verb.] Brag ; boa«t; Tain ostentation. Spenser. VAUNT, s. [
from avant , Fr.] The first part. Shakspeare. * VAUNT-COURIER. *. [avant-courier,
Fr.] A ...
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Johnson's English Dictionary
Ob. J. VAUNT-COURIER*, van-kMr-yere'. n. s. [amnt- courier, Fr.] A precursor,
bee VASCOURIER. Shaiispeare. VA'UNTER, vawnt'-ur. n.s. [vantair, Fr.] Boaster;
braggart ; man riven to vain ostentation. Spenser. VA'UNTFUL, vawnt'-ffil. a.
Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chambers, Henry John Todd, 1834
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The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama
It was for nought but love he wished his end Might to my death but the vaunt-
courier prove: 60 But I had rather still be foe than friend, To him that saves for
hate, and kills for love. Hard-hearted Mariam, at thy discontent What floods of
tears have ...
Simon Barker, Hilary Hinds, 2003
... seen – 55 Yet had I rather much a milkmaid be Than be the monarch of
Judea's queen. It was for nought but love he wished his end Might, to my death,
but the vaunt-courier prove, But I had rather still be foe than friend 60 37 40 41 43
44 ...
Elizabeth Cary, Karen Britland, 2010
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The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear: The 1608 ...
... to oak-cleaving thunderbolts' (9.5) and Strachey's use of the word 'vaunt-
curring' in conjunction with lightning; but, as OED makes clear, the word 'vaunt-
courier' was in common use at the time (indeed, it appears in Harsnet, p. 213), so
the ...
William Shakespeare, Stanley Wells, 2000
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Johnson's English Dictionary, as Improved by Todd and ...
Sliakspmre, VAUNT, vlwnt. ».«. Brag; boast; vain ostentation. VAU*NT, 'vawnl.
214. n.s. [aixmr, Fr.] The first part. SliaJupmre. Ob. J. VAUNT-COURIER*, v&n-
koor-yere'. n. i. [arant- coiirier. Fr.] A precursor. See VANCOURIER. SliaksLtare.
Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Henry John Todd, 1830
Van-coueiee, ) from Fr. avant- Van-guaed, J courier (O. Eng. vaunt- courier),
avant-garde. Ouid sendeth out his scoutes too Theaters to descry the enimie, and
in steede of vaunt e Curriers, with instruments of musicke, playing, singing, and ...
Rowe+. to the use of this ' very rare word ' in Harsnet, where one of the Peckhams
is called * the harhinger, the host, the steward, the vaunt-courier, the sacrist, and
the pander ' to the priests. WEIGHT: Cotgrave gives, 'Avant-coureur: m.
William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, 1908
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
... estimate, be worth valued, denoting the value vantage, advantage, gain,
superiority, vantage-ground, opportunity varletry, rabble vastidity, immensity
vaulty, arched, hollow vaunt, beginning vaunt-courier, herald, harbinger
vengeance, harm, ...
William Shakespeare, Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, 2005
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They were also known as vaunt-courier, French avant-courrier, one who runs ahead, from French courir, to run. There are many tales of harbingers leaving signs ... «YourWestValley.com, Sep 13»
