‖ ante-ˈambulo Obs.
[L., f. ante before + ambulāre to walk; app. in familiar use in 17th c.]
One whose business it is to walk in front, an usher.
| 1609 Man in Moone (1857) 95 [A serving-man] is the ante-ambulo of a gentlewoman, the consequent of a gentleman. 1641 Maisterton Serm. 18 An anteambulo to usher in a thousand pains. 1706 Phillips, Anteambulo, A Sergeant of the Mace to a Prince, a Verger or Gentleman-usher. |