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单词 fourrier
释义

fourriern.

Forms: Also 1600s–1700s fourier.
Etymology: < French fourrier, variant of Old French forrier : see forayer n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈfourrier.
Obsolete exc. Historical or as an alien word.
1. = forayer n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > [noun] > one who goes first > as a harbinger or messenger
messengerc1230
foregoer1393
fourrier1481
fore-rider1513
fore-currour1548
usher1548
harbingera1550
vaunt-courier1561
van-courier1581
herald1597
usherer1598
outrunner1891
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) lxxxiii. 131 They made semblaunt for to take fourriers and the horses nyghe them.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 30 The Arch-duke had caused a Fourrier or Harbinger..to be put in prison.
1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III i. 34 This was the preparative and fourrier of the rest.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. v. 135 He that decoyed us into this snare shall go our fourrier to the next world, to take up lodgings for us.
2. A quartermaster. Also brigadier-fourrier (see quot. 1895).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > quartermaster
quartermaster1590
fourrier1678
Q.M.1791
quartermaster captain1846
Q1916
quarter1917
quarter-bloke1918
quarter jack1930
1678 tr. L. de Gaya Art of War ii. 47 The Fourier ought to have a List of all the Soldiers of a Company.
1781 in T. Simes Mil. Guide (ed. 3) 7 He makes the Fourier mark the head~quarters, and the quarters of the General Officers.
1895 Daily News 22 Oct. 6/4 He had worked his way up to the enviable position of brigadier-fourrier, a sub-officer charged with accounts, lodging of men, etc.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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