† aˈvaunter Obs.
Forms: 5 avauntour, 6 -ure, advaunter.
[a. OF. avanteur, -our, n. of agent f. avanter: see avaunt v.1]
A boaster.
| c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iii. 260 Avauntour and a lier, all is one. 1496 Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) viii. v. 327 The auaunter of hymselfe is worse than the lacker of hymselfe. c 1530 Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 440 For I neuer saw so good a knight and so lytel auaunture. 1553 Brende Q. Curtius viii. 5 Being over great an advaunter of hymselfe. |