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vaunt-courier

vaunt-courier is the obsolete form of van-courier.

Meaning of van-courier

Noun

van-courier (plural van-couriers)

  1. (archaic) Someone sent in advance; an avant-courier, precursor, or scout.

Forms of vaunt-courier

pluralvaunt-couriers

Questions about vaunt-courier

What is vaunt-courier the obsolete form of?
Vaunt-courier is the obsolete form of van-courier.

Words near vaunt-courier in the dictionary

  1. vaunce
  2. vaunced
  3. vaunces
  4. vauncing
  5. vaunt
  6. vaunt-courier
  7. vaunt-couriers
  8. vauntage
  9. vauntages
  10. vaunted
  11. vaunter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vaunt-courier (page history and authors); van-courier (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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