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vant-courier

vant-courier is the obsolete form of avant-courier.

Meaning of avant-courier

Noun

avant-courier (plural avant-couriers)

  1. A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach; a scout or herald.
    • Mr Farrer reached Calcutta some time before them, announcing himself as the avant-courier of His Majesty's new court, in which he was to be the leading advocate.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 145
    Synonyms:
    harbinger, messenger

Forms of vant-courier

pluralvant-couriers

Questions about vant-courier

What is vant-courier the obsolete form of?
Vant-courier is the obsolete form of avant-courier.

Words near vant-courier in the dictionary

  1. Vanslykes
  2. Vansterdam
  3. Vanstone
  4. Vanstones
  5. vant
  6. vant-courier
  7. vant-couriers
  8. VANTA
  9. Vantaa
  10. Vantablack
  11. vantage

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