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vaunt-chase
† vaunt-chase Obs. rare. [prob. ad. AF. *vauntchace: see vaunt-.] = vanchase. (See also quot. 1688.)1576 Turberv. Venerie 113 ‘There he goeth, thats he,..to him, to him,’ naming the hound that goth away with the vautchace [sic] and hallowing the rest vnto him. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. 189/1 Vaunt-cha...
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vaunt-
vaunt-, prefix an AF. variant of vant-. (For examples see vaunt-chase, -courier, etc.)
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vant-
vant- prefix, representing AF. vant-, aphetic f. avant- avant-: see vant-brace, -guard, -ward. In a number of compounds the t was elided, as vanbrace, -chase, -courier, -guard, etc. Before labials the n by assimilation became m, as in vambrace, vampey, vamplate, vamward; and a further reduction appe...
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Battle of the Spurs
The chase went on for many miles until the French reached their infantry at Blangy. The events within the town were misunderstood in English chronicles, Raphael Holinshed and Richard Grafton wrote that a disaffected "vaunt-parler" had
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vanchase
† vanchase Obs. rare. Also vaunchace. [f. van- (see vant-) + chase n.1 Cf. vaunt-chase.] The van, front, or advanced part of the chase or hunt. So † vanchaser, a hound hunting in the van. Obs.c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) Prol., He hath ynogh at done..to loke..which houndes ben vanchasours a...
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