English
Etymology
Old French avanteur or avantour
Alternative spellings
avaunter
Noun
avauntour
#obsolete One who boasts (avaunts).
#*RQ:Chaucer Troilus III-314 - Y-wis, I am avauntour at the leste, / And lyere, for I breke my biheste.
References
R:Webster 1913
R:Century 1914
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