† fore-footman Obs.
[fore- prefix + footman.]
A footman who ran before his master.
(A rendering of vautrarius fewterer, misread as vantrarius and supposed to be connected with F. avant.)
| 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 331 He should be, the Kings fore-foot-man, until he had worne out a paire of shooes. |